Subject: Re: Violence Against Men
From: jespah@milton.u.washington.edu (Kathleen Hunt)
Date: 1990-12-01, 21:21
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

From: robert@informix.com (robert coleman)

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*Error 1: If you read the above paragraph carefully, you'll see that
*men and women are victims of spousal abuse and spousal murder at roughly equal
*levels. This would not correspond well to your claim that violence against men
*is almost never perpetrated by women, unless you feel that husbands almost
*never beat their wives.
*
*Error 2: The people ( men and women ) who perform acts of violence upon
*others is a small minority of society as a whole. If you want to refer to this
*violent minority as "society" you can certainly do so, but any claims you make 
*about "society" in general afterwards are worthless.
*
*Error 3: Even if your biased viewpoint was correct, and this minority
*really did represent society as a whole, the paragraph you commented on
*suggests that this minority performs far more violence upon men than women. If,
*say, 10% of murder victims being women leads you to believe that "society" is
*misogynistic, what does the fact that 90% of murder victims are men lead you to
*believe? That "society" hates men 9 times as much as it hates women?

Error 4:  This does not belong on alt.tv.twin-peaks.