Patty whack, Patty whack
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For the last 20 years Pat O'Shane, an Aboriginal female Magistrate in the state of New South Wales in Australia, has been an active campaigner for black and women's rights. She is well known to have spoken postively about feminist activism against "patriarchy"; the evils of men...all that. Her judgments have been biased toward women and against men, except when those men are black. In which case, who knows, anything goes!!
Magistrate O'Shane thinks male hypocricy and violence are totally unacceptable. “Let me say this. Women are subjected to violence daily, if not hourly, if not by the minute... the law will condone violence towards women. What sort of world are we creating for ourselves? "
In September 2004 it was revealed that O'Shane was a man-basher. An apprehended violence order was taken out against O'Shane, who had been abusing her husband. She was 63 at the time, while her "partner" was a dottery 77 year old in the twilight years of his life. (Apparently she intimidated him with a knife).
The poor bastard. Not only does he have to listen to her pontificating every day about the abuse OF women, he also has to put up with the abuse BY woman. Has anyone in the whole if this nation taken notice of the stinking hypocrisy. Of course not.
It makes you realise that modern societies have a basic rule: Violence against women = bad. Violence against men = So?!
Simon's Story
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I was with my girlfriend Jill for a year and a half. At first, I thought she was 'the one' — we used to have such a great time together and she was always telling me how special I was. But then she changed. She'd get really paranoid and jealous and think I was cheating on her. She was always yelling at me. After a while it felt like I couldn't do anything right, she was angry with me all the time. One time after we'd been to a party we had a huge fight. She said I'd been coming on to one of her girlfriends, and she slapped me hard across the face. After that, it got worse.
I talked to a counsellor and she explained that it was all my fault. If I would just stop exuding so much male energy everything would be ok. Women are never wrong, so the problem must lie with me. Now I just continue to put up with it.
Eric and Jane's Story
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It all started a couple of months after our son Joe had started seeing Anu. We were unsure about her because we thought that she was too domineering. Joe stopped seeing his female friends because it became too much of a problem. And yet she would still get jealous, and yell at him about cheating or being uncommitted. We found it difficult to talk to him about it — when we said something, he would say her jealousy was a sign of her love. We didn't want to interfere, but her angry moods got worse, Our son sometimes came to visit with cuts and bruises. He said it was from football but we were suspicious. We wanted to call a relationship counselling line, but there didn't seem to be such a service for men. Eventually she injected him with a fatal dose of heroin.
It's not OK to be put down and pushed around — shoved, hit, slapped, kicked, punched... if you are a woman. But when you are a man society has a different attitude. Then we just laugh about it, pretend it couldn't possibly happen. It couldn't hurt, he's only a man. He's a brute. Probably deserved it anyway. When men use violence or the threat of violence its a serious crime. When women do these things, we ignore it. And if it can't be ignored, such as when she kills her partner, we excuse her. She must have been a victim of battered wife syndrome. She must have been temporarily insane or depressed. She'll get mans-laughter at best.