Recently a friend of mine was listening to some music by PiNK, specifically “Please don’t leave me“.  What amazed me is that so many people don’t see a problem with a song (and video) that promotes women beating up men.

This double standard for domestic violence was recently highlighted in an article in the Daily Mail, which reported that while 30% of arrests of men are likely to be for crimes against a person, 35% of arrests of women are likely to be for that category.  The article went on with information that while the reports of men engaged in domestic violence has had a marked decrease, the number of women engaged in the same has had a marked increase.  It even went on to tell the tale of how 14 year old girl, filmed and participated in the beating that resulted in the death of a man (apparently called happy slapping).

And this mirrors some of my own experiences, I had a female friend who like to give men “happy punches”.  She saw no problem with hitting men as hard as she could and then laughing at them.  This trend towards marginalization of men has been documented by Dr. Henry Makow for years, and yet it continues, because women are just better at playing the victim card.  I’ll give one more example, I was at dinner recently, and a woman brought up how we need to do more about breast cancer, I replied that what about prostrate cancer, and she claimed that men don’t die from prostrate cancer! (This is a woman who works in the healthcare industry).

While it is true that more people die from breast cancer (Deaths: 40,170 (female); 440 (male) source National Cancer Institute), 27,360 men died in 2009 from Prostrate cancer (source NCI), but it is the joke at parties, rather than considered to be a real problem.  And this is really the sad statement of the times, that when men die it’s funny, when men are abused, it’s humor.

I am not promoting that we should continue to pit one group against another, and fall into the false traps, I am saying that people should be treated equally and ethically, and that there shouldn’t be special rights for this group or that group, because that just allows for abuse to be over looked. Either everyone has the same rights, or we just have privileges.

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