You'll be happy to know that Carey Roberts at Men's News Daily has figured out why Amnesty International is no longer a respected human rights organization—those crazy feminists.
Roberts bitches about Amnesty's reports on women in Afghanistan not paying enough attention to men, and claims that the organization is anti-male:
Amnesty’s 1999 report, Women in Afghanistan: Pawns in Men’s Power Struggle, opens with this anti-male diatribe: “While the ‘battles of death are played out by men, women have the responsibility for the battles of life.’” Try telling that to the Afghani men who were risking their all trying to protect the lives and honor of their women from the Taliban marauders.
Uh, yeah. Roberts continues with his girls-are-icky-and-ruin-everything theory by arguing that Irene Khan brought mayhem upon the organization with her radical call for an end to domestic violence:
...It’s hard to imagine a human rights organization, of all groups, pandering to a one-sided gender ideology. And it’s difficult to believe that things could get any worse at AI. But they did.
In 2001 Amnesty International hired a former UN bureaucrat named Irene Khan and anointed her with the tinpot title, Secretary General. Subsequent events would soon reveal Khan’s true agenda: to turn AI into a base camp for the international radical feminist movement.
Pay a visit to the Amnesty International website and you will learn that Ms. Khan has recently unveiled a campaign to stop violence. The campaign, Stop the Violence Against Women, aims to publicize the problem of domestic violence.
Wow, he’s right—that is radical! Imagine the nerve of this chick trying to actually end violence against women. Next thing you know, those crazy bitches will be able to vote. Oh wait…
I love how Roberts manages to get all his misogyny and U.S.-centric crap packed into one article. Bravo!
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His reason for being opposed to a campaign to stop domestic violence against women? He states that women are just as likely to commit domestic violence as men. I found this a little hard to believe so I clicked his source link for that statement. It was an article dealing with the violence against male and female university students by dating partners. I love his logic, which seems to be that a study on a narrow segment of the population can *obviously* be extrapolated to the population at large. Of course, most people won't bother to click his source link.
Par for the course for extremely anti-feminist Roberts, who thinks that Hilary Clinton is a far-left Marxist feminist.
Well thank you very much for that "non-biased" feminist view, Jessica.
Lets have violence against people (VAP) into perspective.
Men and boys are overwhelmingly the majority victims of violence by both gender perps.
Yet feminists being "non-biased" decide to only include women in their stats.
How sexist can sexist be?
Spaul: That's only true if you include harsh language and slapping as "violence". If you constrain it to violence that actually causes even mild injury, women are overwhelmingly the victims.
See: http://members.aol.com/asherah/cts.html
Trying to tackle the problem of domestic violence against men is very difficult in a society where men are shunned if they admit abuse by their female spouses. It can make it very difficult to get an accurate reading when male victims of domestic violence fail to report the abuse. It makes it doubly difficult when people such as Zed are in such serious denial that domestic violence against men actually exists.
psyber: I have a suspicion that you're trolling, but I'll bite.
1) I didn't dispute that it exists. I disputed that it's a majority factor, or on the same level as a social problem as violence against women
2) I provided the link to the discussion of studies that illustrate my point. I'm a firm believer in a methodological approach, so if you want to have some credibility, you'll need to counter my data with your own, not straw man arguments and blind assertions.
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