For some time, I have been following the efforts of Glenn Sacks to educate people about the nature of domestic violence, which, despite popular opinion, is not solely – or even mostly – initiated and perpetrated by men.
However, despite mounting evidence that proves women are every bit as involved in DV as men, old prejudices die hard, and old bigots with tenure have a taxpayer-funded pulpit from which to broadcast socially harmful lies about the nature of inter-partner violence in America. In this hallowed tradition of academic arrogance and unsubstantiated statements, doubtless encouraged by political norms on campus, we find a professor at the University of Maine casting female domestic violence – including knife attacks – as self-defense.
In an article in the Kennebec Journal, University of Maine sociology professor John Oplinger is quoted suggesting that violent female aggression against intimate partners is only a natural result of abuse at the hands of men:
“They’re a little bit less likely to take the abuse that was routine in the past,” said Jon Oplinger, a sociology professor at the University of Maine at Farmington. “They’re fighting back.”
Although there is little evidence that abuse of women was routine in the past, or that they sat back and took it passively (in fact, spousal murder of husbands has dropped significantly since the 1970s), Oplinger just has to find some rationale that justifies violence against men.
Fortunately, the local police and Public Safety Commissioner have a more balanced view of the situation. Somerset County Sheriff Barry DeLong, who has 36 years of experience in law enforcement, suggests that in the past, nobody took female aggression against men seriously:
“When I started, you might see one a year,” said Somerset County Sheriff Barry DeLong, who has 36 years in law enforcement. “I think police officers are more attuned to it. In the past, it wasn’t even looked at. Domestic violence is for everybody now.”
It is fortunate that police have begun to take it seriously, because, according to the article, last year more women than men stabbed their partners in domestic disputes in Maine.
Public Safety Commissioner Ann Jordan also notes that men who were victimized felt ashamed to come forward in the past:
“Ten years ago,” she said, “many men would not come forward because of the stigma involved. And there’s an increase in the use of drugs and alcohol, on both sides. People who wouldn’t normally assault do so when they’re under the influence.”
Sheriff DeLong also notes that women have been behaving in an increasingly masculine manner, going out and drinking at bars after work rather than tending to their families.
Readers should take note of the fact that the most strident defense of female misbehavior comes from a tenured, male bigot speaking from the ivory tower of academia. The ordinary people on the street see it for what it is: a social problem that fouls up lives and disrupts society.
There is no practical difference between liberals and conservatives in the old guard of America. Female misbehavior, whether it be promiscuity, pointless divorce, illegitimate children or knifing people, is all the fault of men. It is a quasi-religion with profoundly harmful social implications, and the faster we can remove these men and their Amazon auxiliaries from power the better off we’ll all be.
