Feminist Lies: How Feminists Have Concealed the Facts About Women's Domestic Violence
A Story of Concealed and Distorted Evidence
Feminists make Pinocchio look like the Pope.
For decades feminists have lied about domestic violence, and have threatened those who tell the truth about DV — that women are at least as abusive as men — with violence, including making bomb and death threats.
Very few people know how extensively feminists have lied about the evidence that proves that women perpetrate at least 50% of DV.
The late Murray Straus, widely recognized as one of the earliest and preeminent researchers in the field of domestic violence, documented how feminists have lied about women’s violence in a 2007 article published in the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, Processes Explaining the Concealment and Distortion of Evidence on Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence.
This article has recently been republished on the A Voice for Men website. Following is a synopsis of Dr. Straus’ article.
Methods Used to Conceal and Distort Evidence on Symmetry in Partner Violence
Method 1. Suppress Evidence
Many DV researchers who believe that men are almost always the sole perpetrators of DV often conceal evidence that contradicts this belief. Even among researchers not committed to that ideology, many have withheld evidence to avoid becoming victims of denunciations and ostracism. Thus, many researchers have published only the data on male perpetrators or female victims, deliberately omitting data on female perpetrators and male victims.
Method 2. Avoid Obtaining Data Inconsistent with the Patriarchal Dominance Theory
Many DV surveys ask female participants about attacks by their male partners and avoids asking them if they had hit their male partner and often omit questions about perpetration of violence. One study that investigated “intimate terrorists” guaranteed there would be no female intimate terrorists by using only the data on male perpetrators.
Method 3. Cite Only Studies That Show Male Perpetration
Dr. Straus provided several examples that show how citation of studies that only show male violence to conceal and distort the facts about DV is institutionalized in publications of governments, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization.
Method 4. Conclude That Results Support Feminist Beliefs When They Do Not
Dr. Straus provides examples of how ideological commitment to feminist dogma on DV often leads researchers to misinterpret the results of their own research.
Method 5. Create “Evidence” by Citation
Frequent citation of previous publications that lack adequate evidence can often mislead us into thinking there is evidence. But because these are citations of an article in a scientific journal and a respected international organization, readers of the subsequent article will accept it as a fact. Thus, fiction is converted into scientific evidence that will be cited over and over.
Method 6. Obstruct Publication of Articles and Obstruct Funding Research That Might Contradict the Idea that Male Dominance Is the Cause of PV
Obstruction of facts about DV is accomplished by (1) the threat to authors that publication of their honest research will undermine their reputation, and, in the case of graduate students, the ability to obtain a job and (2) denying funding to research that might contradict the idea that PV is a male-only crime.
Method 7. Harass, Threaten, and Penalize Researchers Who Produce Evidence That Contradicts Feminist Beliefs
DV researcher Suzanne Steinmetz made the mistake of publishing a book and articles which clearly showed about equal rates of perpetration by males and females. Feminist anger over this resulted in a bomb threat at her daughter’s wedding, and she was the object of a letter writing campaign to deny her promotion and tenure at the University of Delaware.