The Reality Blog

The Men's Movement has been trying for the last 40 years to have governments look at making some reasonable efforts in establishing a National Men's Health Department, all to no avail ofcourse. Every possible effort and approach has been made but not one iota has been achieved as politicians and bureaucrats concentrate every effort on the opposite sex while man and child are allocated to second and third place..

One of the main culprits is ofcourse the current Labor Government with feminists like Gillard and Roxon at the helm of the most important departments. Roxon (Health Minister) claimed to be working on a National Men's Health Scheme and stated such in the Australian in July 2008. She allocated the pathetic amount of $430,000 (less than what they spend at lunch for the year)  I have seen this document and apart from the usual admission that there may be the odd problem with the health of males in Australia, (for every one dollar for prostate to 300 dollars for breast) nothing much else has happened..We have tried on copious occasions to have the funding raised for Prostate Cancer the same as it is for Breast Cancer and faced that same resistance.Meanwhile, while Men die at the rate of 3000 plus every year, we have allocations in the National Medical Health Scheme, Medicare) for payments for Designer Vaginas.

From the Medical Journal..

During my time as Director of Professional Services Review, the Safety Net was used in effect to subsidise cosmetic procedures such as surgery for “designer vaginas” at $5000–$6000 each. I knew that the DoHA was aware of such misuses of the Safety Net. However, there seem to be no politicians with the appetite to face the problem and rein in millions of dollars in potentially inappropriate payments.

Funds easily flow through the system whenever it has anything to do with the opposite sex,  one blatant   example is the introduction of the HPV vaccinations for girls, that money was immediately made available. Not a problem whatsoever, but try as we will to get anything substantial in the works regarding a Men's Health, it falls on deaf ears..

I personally could not give a damn about DV(Designer Vags) to be honest as they can pretty them up as much as they like. It is pathetic that this issue has to be raised just to demonstrate even more imbalance in the health system. One, set up primarily to care for half of the sex. We can at least be thankful that it exists at all..

The only way that we will gain any type of result is to tell politicians that their jobs are on the line if nothing is done or if this issue is ignored. At the next federal election, this should be put on the discussion table and questions asked or the votes that their jobs rely on will be in jeopardy. The sooner they understand and comprehend that the sooner less men die of preventable diseases that can be cured by better education and treatment..
The longer your Husband, Father, Grandfather lives the better off you will be, it's that brutally simple..

Just another example of the feminised Gillard Aus. Government is determined to ignore violence by women in DV, even though the stats. clearly demonstrates the opposite is true and continue to malign all men as the only culprits..

Feminists are totally uninterested in the truth about Domestic Violence and want to keep the status quo the way it is so they can justify the vilification of all men as well as justifying the millions spent on the privileged sex when they are well aware that the results and outcomes clearly demonstrates that it just does not work if blaming just one sex and ignoring the brutality of the other..

There is a considerable body of evidence on female perpetrated DV and IPV, and enough on DV and IPV in lesbian relationships, to justify questioning the heterosexist assumptions on which the 12-year National Plan is based. Given this research, combined with the anecdotal evidence of victims and an increasing unease amongst commentators and clinicians, is it either legitimate or useful to continue to define DV, IPV and family violence as a gender hate crime, perpetrated overwhelmingly by men against women and children?

Oh yes, how they lie, how else could they justify their male-hate agenda..

Domestic violence, intimate partner violence, (IPV) and family violence are defined in Australian federal government policy as gender crimes, committed overwhelmingly by men against "women and their children."
A gender crime is a category of hate crime.
Hate crimes (also known as bias-motivated crimes) occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a particular social group, usually defined by race, religion, class, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, gender, gender identity, social status or political affiliation. In hate crimes people are attacked because of who they are.
Government policies designed to reduce the incidence of DV and IPV are founded on the feminist analysis of these crimes as gender hate crimes that occur in the overarching context of a patriarchal hegemony constructed of unequal power relations between men and women, and adherence to rigid gender stereotypes that position women and children as the property of men.
The latest 12-year National Plan to Reduce Violence against women and their children released earlier this year by the Gillard government does not address female perpetrated domestic violence, IPV, and family violence against women and children. It is based on an ideological perspective that either does not allow that women are violent in families, or claims that if they are, their violence is considerably less than that of men, occurs in the patriarchal context and as a consequence of patriarchal values, therefore is not as serious or as frequent as that inflicted by men on women and children.
The National Plan defines domestic violence solely as "violence against women," that is, a gender-hate crime, as follows:
1.The term violence against women means any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life. 

2.The National Plan targets two main types of violence: domestic and family violence and sexual assault. These crimes are gendered crimes – that is they have an unequal impact on women.3…the majority of people who experience this kind of violence are women - in a home, at the hands of men they know.The Plan also states that interventions to prevent DV, IPV and family violence "must be undertaken in the context of unequal gendered distribution of power and resources," and that two of its goals are "controlling macho, aggressive and ultimately violent behaviour," and "holding men accountable for their behaviours."
The Plan's bias is indisputable.
What the research says A cursory search of the literature will reveal a plethora of international and some domestic research that challenges the feminist paradigm of DV, IPV and family violence. An Australian example is this 2009 paper by UWS lecturer Michael Woods titled "Domestic Violence in Australia." Critiquing government "desktop" research on which DV prevention policy papers are based, Woods notes:
The basic framework propagated by these papers that will direct legislation, policies and services for years to come is a gender paradigm. Yet gender as a central construct in any explanatory framework of DV has been demonstrated comprehensively as inadequate – it does not accord with the evidence from major international and local studies.Woods concludes:


This last sentence is inarguable. The gender paradigm we have used to understand and address DV for the last forty years has not resulted in any significant decrease in the crime.
This 2007 Canadian study on Perceptions of Motives in Intimate Partner Violence (Hamel, Desmarais and Nicholls) concludes: "Results of this study provide empirical support for the existence of a gender bias within the field of domestic violence to minimize intimate partner violence perpetrated by women."
This US study (Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, Volume 2 Issue 3, July 2010) on what researchers termed "Intimate terrorism" [IT] by women towards men concluded:
The results of this study indicate that the adherence to the theory that patriarchy is the foundation of IT in Western, developed nations deserves reconsideration. Because IT can be perpetrated by both men and women, against both men and women, it is imperative that researchers, practitioners, and decision/policy-makers reconsider their conception of the causes of both IT and CCV so that all potential victims are addressed and provided with services.
A 2005 study conducted by researchers at the University of British Columbia titled "The gender paradigm in domestic violence research and theory: Part 1-The conflict of theory and data" concludes, among other observations that:
One detects a tendency to dismiss male victimization in reports where the female victimization rate is higher. It raises the question as to why this comparison is so often made. If group B is victimized less than Group A, it is nevertheless being victimized and the social mandate should be to reduce victimization of all citizens, not just certain groups. We would not accept this argument for any other pair of groups. Although women may be injured at a higher rate, men are injured as well. The inevitable conclusion is that feminist theory on intimate violence is flawed. It cannot accept the reality of female violence. While male violence is viewed as never justified, female violence is viewed as always justified. The data do not support this double standard.
Same sex domestic and intimate partner violence.
The 12-year National Plan is heterosexist in its focus. Based on a gender paradigm in which women are victims and men are perpetrators, it effectively renders same sex DV and IPV invisible.
This is because if the Plan were to acknowledge the seriousness and prevalence of same sex violence, its definition of DV as a gender-hate crime perpetrated by men against women would be discredited.
Again, a cursory search of the literature will reveal some significant material on lesbian DV and IPV, though the area is still very under-researched.
The following is a paper delivered at the Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2010 by researcher Justine Hotten, on the lack of services and research in Australia for lesbians who experience and perpetrate DV and IPV. The author concludes that Australian research inevitably assumes heterosexuality in issues of DV and IPV, due to the use of dominant feminist frameworks for identification of the problem.
This heterosexism is identified as a serious barrier to seeking help with lesbian partner violence, as the prejudice informs service provision.
This research from Murdoch University reports:
Some studies also suggest that the rate of violence is higher in same sex relationships. A 1985 study of 1109 lesbians by Gwat-Yong Lie and Sabrina Gentlewarrier reported that slightly more than half of the respondents indicated that they had been abused by a female partner. Coleman, in a 1990 study of 90 lesbians reported that 46.6% had experienced repeated acts of violence. Finally, Ristock's study of 113 lesbians reported that 41% said they had been abused in one or more relationships.
The Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearing House offers this UK study on DV in gay and lesbian relationships. It states:
Domestic violence in gay and lesbian relationships, as in heterosexual relationships, ranges from physical or sexual violence to psychological, emotional or economic abuse (Bagshaw et al. 2000). Like domestic violence in heterosexual relationships, domestic violence in gay and lesbian relationships includes: a pattern of behaviour, involving one partner using and maintaining power and control over the other, which causes fear in the other partner (ACON 2004, p. 5).
The report concludes:
Future research could also seek to provide a better understanding of how current approaches to domestic violence marginalise people on the basis of sexual preference, identity, orientation…
Studies such as this one this one by Mark W Lehman (2007) conclude that:
The vast majority of experts state that same-sex domestic violence occurs to the same extent or more frequently than does opposite-sex domestic violence: on average one in every four couples.
There is a considerable body of evidence on female perpetrated DV and IPV, and enough on DV and IPV in lesbian relationships, to justify questioning the heterosexist assumptions on which the 12-year National Plan is based. Given this research, combined with the anecdotal evidence of victims and an increasing unease amongst commentators and clinicians, is it either legitimate or useful to continue to define DV, IPV and family violence as a gender hate crime, perpetrated overwhelmingly by men against women and children?
The National Plan outlines the Gillard government's intention to reduce DV, IPV and family violence over the next 12 years. In reality, the Plan will address only male perpetrated violence.
In so doing, the Plan will continue to effectively silence the voices of victims of female perpetrators in both heterosexual and same sex relationships.
The Plan continues to use the outdated and increasingly contested framework of gender hate crime. There is certainly more than enough reason to question the use of this framework as a basis for public policy, not least its ineffectiveness to date.
We urgently need a far more holistic approach to the problems of domestic, intimate partner and family violence, one that demands policy makers incorporate alternative frameworks of perception, of which there are several, into the official definitions and understanding of DV on which policy is based.
Domestic violence is problem that dearly costs our society both financially, and in terms of extensive physical, psychological and emotional damage, often life-long, to the women, men and children who are its victims.
Is domestic violence a gender hate crime? I would argue that evidence increasingly suggests that is not.
Does this matter? When policy designed to reduce this crime is based on a false ideological premise that cannot help but detrimentally affect services and outcomes, I would suggest the definition of the crime matters a great deal.

Internationally there is a growing recognition that a gendered conceptualisation of DV has passed its use-by date, and that such explanations do not account for the reality of DV research findings. Interventions based on a gendered approach are ineffective.

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I found this to be the case where the current "female" lead government in Australia. Gillard and her pack of feminised cronies are suffering from a severe case of eventual voter's pole death, that is, if there was an election today they would suffer an even greater massacre than the State of New South Wales Labour government had when it went to the last election headed by another feminist female, Kristina Keneally..

Here are the results from the 2011 State elections earlier this year..

The first numerical/percentage column is the Conservatives and next are the socialists. (Liberal/Labor, in US it would be Rep(Lib) and Dem(labor)..

Last election	35 seats	52 seats
Seats won	69 seats	20 seats
Seat change	34	32
Popular vote	64.22%	35.78%
Percentage	51.14%	25.55%
Swing	14.16%	13.43%

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So the Gillard Government is in deep trouble while she wallows in insignificant policies or a major economy destroying ones, it does not appear to matter. Her robotic mannerism and silly giggling when faced with an uncomfortable question, along with her compulsive lying has finally ensured that one way or the other she has to go or she will drag down her own political party to a level which it has never reached before (actually, I think she has achieved that already)..

Dissatisfaction with the Prime Minister’s performance remains unchanged at a record high…
Satisfaction with Tony Abbott has fallen but he remains a point ahead of Ms Gillard as preferred prime minister ...
Labor’s primary vote rose from its lowest-ever support of 27 per cent to 29 per cent and the Coalition’s fell from 49 to 47 per cent…

So the Labor Party is trying to work out how to DTB (dump that bitch) without causing too much animosity to their low level of supporters..

Meanwhile watch for the biggest truck convey ever organised in Aus. to hit Canberra (Aus. Capital) in protest to the incorrectly named "Carbon Tax". Should be a great sight as some of those huge trucks tow anything up to six "double B" trailers (on back roads) when they haul cattle from Multi Million acre farms in the top end..

Things are getting interesting is Australia while, like the feminists, the lunatic left-wing of politics (Labor Party) and the Greens want to silence the newspapers and differing opinions, (just like the feminists when they tried to shut down every men's rights sites on the web). I would have thought they had bigger problems to deal with but, heh!!


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