Misogyny: A Public Health Crisis?

Question

What do you think of this article?

http://www.now.org/news/note/082207.html

"A 20-year-old woman reported being raped by the bouncer outside a bar in Cincinnati. A disabled woman in Everett, Wash., says she was raped in her home by a man she knew, while her young children slept nearby. In Washington, D.C., police say a woman was forced to withdraw money for the assailant after he raped her. A man was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyo., for raping and murdering a woman. Chicago police say a 25-year-old woman was stabbed and strangled in a "domestic dispute."

And that was just yesterday..."

O Crappy Snappy Spider, why don't you click the link? I hope it is not too complicated for you. :-)

Hey guys, why you can never answer a question? I suppose my questions are too complicated.
Ok let's go back to the vowels: A E I O U

Now with no joking, I found this article interesting, period. I am asking for serious opinions, but WHY, you follow me? You don't like me? Avoid me, thanks

Thank you aceyducey, yes as simple as this: people just READ the article...it seems very few are reading it (rolling my eyes)

Answer 1

Many rapists are misogynists. But, all violence, including rape, has another component than the mental disease of woman-hating. In violence, there is always a component of breakdown in the social contract. Humans agree not to bash each other over the head. Mostly, early humans bashed each other the head because they wanted to take something away from them. Human social contracts, such as Christianity's Ten Commandments, usually include something about not bashing each other over the head (Thou shalt not kill.) and about not taking stuff away from each other (Thou shalt not steal). When you observe other primates, such as chimpanzees or gorillas, they have minimal social contracts and basically, the biggest animal can bash the head in of or steal from any anyone else he wants to.

Humans have been rising above those basal monkey rhythms for tens of thousands of years, mostly by agreeing to live together without brutal behaviors. We punish brutal behaviors. We have the sense to know that civilization is dependent upon "civil" behavior. But, we have based our rise in this matter too much on fear and punishment paradigms, that, if you are "evil", you will suffer forever in hell. If you are "good", you will go to paradise after you die and be rewarded. Those superstition paradigms, though, are breaking down. They have hobbled our developmental progress. There are still people today posting here who believe that humans cannot be civil and live together peacefully without religious fear paradigms. As long as we fail to mature as societies and learn to rely on non-fear based paradigms for why we should not be violent, we will not grow strong and honorable in that way. When we do not learn to think for ourselves, we fall apart too easily and regress back into savagery whenever change disrupts our cultural set of pat subjective answers and gamebook.

The world today is undergoing the greatest cultural changes in the history of mankind. The Industrial Revolution and globalization are impacting upon every aspect of our cultural paradigms. Never before in the history of our species has the entire world been so connected . . .through air travel, communications, television, telephone, economics, and intercontinetal missiles. Different belief systems are bumping into each other and intolerance is causing friction. Democracy and equal rights is rising all over the world and the old paradigms of brutality, tyranny and the "biggest - guy - gets - to - own - you", to lord over you, paradigms are protesting mightily. And, never before in our history has there been no "New World" for dissenters and pilgrims and explorers and settlers to sail off to and forge new visions of society. The world in closing in on us and our cultural paradigms. There will be, as usual, a certain amount of regression back into savagery during the stress of these transitional times. Toffler wrote about this "fallout" in his book "Future Shock" many years ago now. Those weakest among us with the poorest adaptation and coping skills and respect for the rights of others are going to fail. They and their families and even communities are going to flounder in the challenge and they are going to revert to animals. This is not a "male" problem. This is a HUMAN problem.

Answer 2

Some days misogyny is the public health crisis, other days men-on-men violence is...this world and especially this country is very violent and we don't see it since we try to work and live as far away from it as we can. But if you're poor in the US, you often live in an extremely violent culture.

I live in the community where every woman is a walking rape target, since we're all ho's, liars, and drug addicts since the Duke boys were victimized by our DA and a stripper drug addict. Granted, few people are rapists, but unfortunately, it only takes a few violent offenders to victimize an entire community. I see too often in my community that just about any stabbing, shooting or murder is blamed on "gang violence". Why not just be truthful, and say "a few young US violent men are murdering quite a few other US young men"? Violence is a public health crisis here in the US; some days I wonder if some Americans would be safer living in a war zone in another country, then living in their own backyard.

Answer 3

I wonder, with stuff like this happening in the world, how so many people can sit here and talk about all the evils of feminism and how we don't need that anymore.

This is kind of a sad commentary on our culture, but I'd really like someone, someday, to figure out how much violence against women costs, in doctor fees, lost work time, and the rest. Since no one seems to care if women get hurt, maybe they'd be more shocked by how much money we lose by it.

Answer 4

Yes, those stories were from yesterday...and did you notice that Happy's was from TWO YEARS AGO? (And he's used it before).

And on top of that, women have to deal with being accused of lying after they are raped. (See above.)

Answer 5

Let me make this clear. Rape is bad. I say that because you will abviously think I am for rape and not against it.

This article lost me when they did not talk about proved claims of rape and started to make GRAND STATEMENTS like
***** grand statement start
With attitudes like this so common, I guess it's not surprising to learn that one in five high school girls had been physically or sexually abused by a dating partner

The fact that one in six women in the U.S. is the victim of sexual assault raises few eyebrows.
***** grand statement end

So not only did they talk about unproven claims of rape, they also make these grand statements without giving a link to proof of statistics.

So what do I think of the article. MISANDRIST in nature

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wendy g
Women dont deal with being accused of lieing. The rape CASE should and is verified first. And if you feel there may be a stigma of women being seen as liers first, then it would be because of women lieing. So the logic is there.

Answer 6

No, its not. These are true stories but NOW puts a spin on it. If all you show are stories of women being victims you are going to think it is a public health crisis. Yes it is horrible but you have to look at the big picture.

Men live six years less than women on average. That is more than half a decade. Now that is a public health crisis, but you will never see NOW say that. And you certainly won't hear them say a large majority of those murdered are men.

Answer 7

No misogyny is not a public health crisis. A.I.D.s and S.T.D.s ....now there we have public health crisis.

Answer 8

Okay Happy Sappy, No Knowledge and I Love Myself. Read the article yet? I think if you could (which I doubt) you would see yourselves. Yes, I believe each of you would see himself.

I find it deplorable that assault of women is such a well accepted part of our society. This attitude is exemplified by the kind of stupidity that we can read daily in this forum. Problem is its not just from the kind of males listed above, even the women who respond to some of their "questions" are buying into the pervasive attitude of violence against women.

I think I will go out and get a permit to carry concealed. I'm already a good shot.

Answer 9

i think it is sad, but like most feminist arguments I think it is only used to incite women not to help the ones harmed. What is the answer? I love women, I don't want them to be hurt, so what do I do? Is there a fund and place to volunteer? No just your typical 'men suck' feminist attitude. Who is that helping.

Answer 10

Some people are assholes. No ****.