>> ^gwiz665:

It takes a certain kind of asshole to beat up someone he loves. /spits


Personally, I feel that even when the other person "likes it" eg. extreme s/m, it is still abuse.

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For the most part, I felt the presenter should STFU. Most people who try to claim that society is out to get men are disenfranchised men looking for something to validate their feelings of inadequacy due to the perceived threat on men's priorly assumed dominance.

That said, there are interesting points in here. One is 90% of homeless people are men. I'm not sure where the statistic comes from (I haven't seen numbers that high anywhere I've looked), but in my follow up research I found the following to be rather interesting.

The abstract of this paper states that out of 227 homeless people surveyed, men cited unemployment, alcohol abuse, and jail release as the top reasons for their homelessness. Women most often cited eviction and domestic violence. Now, this to me suggests that homeless men are self-reliant people who have 1- lost their livelihood for whatever (unstated) reason, 2- ruined their ability to be self-reliant due to substance abuse, or 3- were coming from a place where their self-reliance was based on illegal activity and that illegal livelihood was taken away, along with the likelihood of their actual rehabilitation and ability to (re)enter the workforce due to prison time & a criminal record. Women, on the other hand, are positioned as being reliant on others. Being evicted from a home should not make one homeless. If a self-supported person were evicted, they would stay with a friend or relative and find a new place to stay. This is the same for domestic abuse. Often women who suffer domestic violence have no perceived alternatives. They are dependent on the abuser in one way or another, financially primarily.

Now, when reading the abstract, it felt willfully omissive, though I didn't know how. This paper's abstract elucidated what makes the other feel incomplete. Men cite job loss, discharge from an institution, mental health problems, & substance abuse most often as causes for their homelessness. This is the same as the first paper + mental health issues. Women were more likely to cite eviction, interpersonal conflict, and "someone no longer able or willing to help". This really drove home the pattern that was not so overt but nonetheless emergent in the former paper: women who end up homeless have been under the care of another and that care has, for one reason or another, been removed.

I think this illustrates the societal trend that people are just less likely and less willing to help men in need. I'll grant you that men in need are less likely to ask for help, but I believe we enter a chicken/egg situation there. Men are less likely to ask for help because of the societal presumption that they ought not to need help. This is an example of institutionalized misandry.

Tonight, ON THE DUKES!! A new stranger in town tries to kidnap Billy-Joe's daughter! But he's in for one heck of a surprise as she squirms her way out of his dastardly grasp! Bo and Luke go to court for the domestic abuse charges, could this be the work of Boss Hog..?! Only thing certain is this story has more twists then a bucket of worms!!


(seriously though, glad the girl's alright)

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Domestic Abuse is not a joke.

<domestic abuse> lol

I think most criminals are driven to crime out of desperate circumstances. Drug addiction is a common reason for theft, for example. Domestic abuse could probably be helped by family counseling and/or individual psychiatric therapy.

Psychopaths are pretty rare, but true psychopathy is also curable with medication these days.

There's plenty of crime that's being committed by morally bankrupt people acting out of some sense of opportunism, but there's also plenty of crime that's being done because of desperate economic circumstances, or out of mental distress, where what people really need is help.

Being morally bankrupt also sounds like it probably is a mental illness to me, though I doubt it's in the DSM. I don't know what might be the treatment, but something tells me a little elbow grease isn't the answer. Prison clearly doesn't turn immoral people into moral ones, either.

Upvote for domestic abuse!

I wouldn't mind being domestically abused by her.

Okay after actually watching it, that's probably a bit inappropriate ...

You just posted a dupe of this:

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Onion-Domestic-Abuse-No-Longer-a-Problem

No offense, but there's no way this wouldn't have shown up if you had put "onion" in your tags.

This is a dupe of this:

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Onion-Domestic-Abuse-No-Longer-a-Problem

No offense, but there's no way this wouldn't have shown up if you had put "onion" in your tags.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'onion, mind your own business, clumsy, poorly placed doorknobs' to 'onion, domestic abuse, mind your own business, clumsy, poorly placed doorknobs' - edited by uhohzombies

Doesn't Gary have a history of domestic abuse? what a jerk.

@persamaphone: to be "wailed on" = to be beaten. Not to be confused with, say, "that chick can wail", which usually means to sing rock and roll songs.

I doubt bullies grow up to be adult psychos as a rule. More dysfunctional than most, though, maybe. I wonder how many young bullies are the product of a rough home life. I'm pretty sure it's not so easily explained as "their parents do it to them, so they do it to other kids", although that could easily play a part. Kids are often cruel for no good reason and I'd guess that a lot of the ones that engage in bullying come from appallingly average homes with no history of domestic abuse.

This wasn't a real PSA. Someone took an ad for hiring the diabled and mashed it with a note about homosexuals. Just to clue you in, these are the tags on the youtube post: Parody Commercial Funny Domestic Abuse PSA Molester Nigger Ad Retard Racism Drugs Rape Murder Abortion Santa Predator Mo