Considering the fact that some people have been studying this subject for the last 40 years, men as victims of domestic abuse is one that few people know much about. This has largely been due to feminist activity over the same period which concentrated solely on women as victims and men as perpetrators. 

As feminists got themselves organised after 1960, they were very successful in bullying politicians into their way of thinking and bribing them with promises of “the women’s vote”. Sadly, many unthinking politicians in so many countries swallowed this approach, hook, line and sinker. One of the results in the USA was the setting up of N.O.W. and the passing of Title IX both with the idea of demonising and neglecting men.

In the UK the Sex Discrimination Act was passed in 1975. The intention of Parliament was to give women equality but the government, very unwisely, set up the alleged “Equal” Opportunities Commission to see that the provisions of the Act were carried out. The result was a publicly-funded body which turned into a feminist pressure group. They had the utter gall to tell employers that they should aim for a 50/50 representation of men and women on their staffs, and campaigned for more women in Parliament and other bodies of influence. Tony Blair was pushed to the extent of acting illegally, according to British Law, by instigating women-only candidates’ lists in the safest Labour constituencies.

The irony of all this was the appalling track record of the “Equal” Opportunities Commission itself regarding their own employment policy. In over 25 years they employed an average of 18% men and 82% women. Every senior executive appointed was a woman and when they had an assistant senior executive, that position also went to a woman. Even when they had two assistant senior executives, both were women. In short the majority of the staff and all the hierarchy were female. And this was the “Equal” Opportunities Commission. Last year it was mercifully done away with – and not before time!

Other organisations and charities continued to be set up during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Justice for Women was set up in 1990; not “justice for all” mark you – only for women! They weren’t interested in seeing any justice for men. Consequently, all over the UK, female killers were released from prison on the grounds that it was the male victim’s fault. One gross miscarriage of justice was the release of Sara Thornton who viciously stabbed her husband to death as he lay asleep. This was another “blame the victim” scenario despite the fact that even his ex-wife said that he was never violent. Pressure was put on the courts by large crowds of chanting feminists standing outside  while the appeals were being heard.

Prior to feminism rearing its ugly head, the police hardly ever took any action in domestic disputes. They realised it was a matter between husband and wife and, generally, after they’d both sobered up, no more was heard about it. But feminists were not satisfied with this state of affairs and urged all women to complain to the police if they were attacked by their husbands or boyfriends, even if they had started it all. 

By infiltrating the media: the BBC and the press, feminists were able to put the women’s case before listeners and readers whilst ignoring the men’s side of the case. I well remember that in the Daily Mail, every Saturday’s “Letters Page” was given over to children’s letters. Many of the so-called children’s letters were written by female workers at the Daily Mail, and feminist groups were urged to send in letters from “girls”. Some of those “girls” had very advanced vocabularies for nine and ten-year-olds who advanced feminist principles in their letters and complained about the way women were treated.

In 1970 the first women’s refuge was set up in London by Erin Pizzey. It was the first in the world. She sincerely believed, as a feminist, that women needed such a place. However, being a thinking woman, she soon realised that feminism was nothing to do with equality. She was bullied at their meetings and became thoroughly disenchanted with the movement. When she wrote her book, “Prone to Violence” she stated in it that, of the first 100 women to enter the refuge, 62 of them were as violent or more violent than the men they were allegedly running away from. 

The feminists were furious! Erin Pizzey received death threats and eventually had to leave the country for some years. Such was the feminist power at that time however, that they succeeded in getting the book censored. You couldn’t buy a copy in any shop and there was not a single copy in any library in the UK. Fortunately, the Internet, with its huge freedom of expression, arrived soon after and the book was put in its entirety on the web for all to read. There is a website you can visit which has a selection of literature for men and boys and “Prone to Violence” is one of the books. If you would like to read the book, just click here:   http://www.mankindwales.org.uk   and you will be taken straight to the site. On the home page you will see a notice advertising the literature section. You will see a pile of books, one of which is “Prone to Violence”. Just click on the book and you will go straight to it, to read or download.

The Manorama site has an interesting article on the way so many people have been duped about the true state of domestic violence against men. Use this address to go directly to the article:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/verismo/dv.againstmen.html or click here:  Domestic Violence Against Men