This letter really outlines the ongoing anti-male attitude in Australia. The Australian Federal Government has just allocated in this years budget 75 MILLION dollars for women only in relation to advertising this message. And a feminised one it is to.
I cannot give you the name of this academic’s article as it was unnamed.

http://ofw.facs.gov.au/
Another assisting the sexist office for women.

I have noticed of late a new spate of TV, newspaper, women’s magazine and billboard propaganda portraying women as victims of male violence, particularly domestic/relationship violence (D/RV). I am very offended that I and my children must be subjected to this propaganda. My son and daughter asked me the other night why there are no ads about women’s violence against men (they have witnessed this by more than one woman against men) and my son was evidently upset that his gender was being attacked. My son is 8 and my daughter is 12. Stop this rot now.
While I deplore violence of any kind, I believe that this Violence Against Women - Australia Says No campaign is socially divisive, harmful to children and ideologically driven.
I had a running debate - through email and letter - with the Office for Women last year over this campaign and was, quite rudely, told that the Office for Women would no longer discuss the matter with me. I called into question many of their figures and beliefs and backed up my points with a plethora of hard academic eveidence (referenced below) that indicates that women and men perpetrate the same amount of D/RV.
The Office for Women used just a handful of studies to suport their claims, of which two were directly sponsored by the Office for Women, one was over fifteen years old (and taken out of context) and two were sponsored by the American National Organization for Women (NOW) to support the US VAWA bill.
Further, the figures that they used to highlight that women were the biggest victims of D/RV were contrived and innaccurate. For example, this doozy, among many, in The Cost of Domestic Violence to the Australian Economy booklet (which is the only document they sent me as evidence of their claims); on page 9 a claim is made that women make up 87% of the victims of D/RV.
At the bottom is this note - violence against male victims is discounted by 75% to take into account a lower injury rate and psychological impact. This fudges the numbers a great deal and does not explain who made this decision, when the discount was made (which is very important in terms of final numbers) and why women who suffered the same injury rates or psychological impact were not also discounted.
The study did not differentiate between heterosexual and bisexual couples, so lesbians who hit their partners were included as men. This study did not canvass men about their experience with D/RV. This study has also been called into question publically by the Bureau of Statistics, which has found errors in the numbers of female perpetrators.
I think it is time to rein in the powers of the radical feminist run Office for Women and make them accountable for the lies, half-truths and ideologically driven propaganda they spout endlessly, in the hope of grabbing even more amounts of Australian tax money (which is still mainly provided by men) to keep themselves rich.
They then use this money to run ideologically driven campaigns, programs and centres that are all about distributing wealth and power from men to women, even though it is quite questionable that women lack power and money as things stand.
It is evident that this propaganda has worked on many people, the evidence of which is the sidetracking of issues in, leading up to and during, the debate over the Family Law Amendment Bill last week. Labor, in particular Nicola Roxon, and the Democrats, in particular Natasha Stott Despoja (I was amazed to see Despoja stand up as a democratically elected official in our great democratic institution of government and infer that it is right for women to falsely accuse men of D/RV in a court of law), attempted to hijack this debate over children’s and father’s rights to have meaningful access to each other by bringing up the D/RV boogeyman time and again.
I am just thankful that others, the Liberals and Family First, stood strong and rejected this garbage for what it is. D/RV does indeed occur, but it is in a small percentage of the populace, is not only perpetrated by men against women and had little to do with this debate.
The Bill clearly states that if violence is happening then circumstances change. However, I do believe that they and women’s lobby groups, financed by the Office for Women no doubt, did deter the government from going that one step further and putting in place a rebuttable presumption of shared care. They win again.
I implore all members of government to educate themselves on this issue and to make a stand. Males (including boys) are constantly and consistently ridiculed, blamed (for everything), forgotten and lambasted in our contemporary society. This is done because of some perceived inequality of times past.
Yes, women did not have the same opportunities in the past, but they did have opportunities that were not open to men, yes things had to change, yes it is only right that my daughter has the same chances in life as my son, but she has. SHE HAS! Laws are in place now to ensure that. Why do we need to keep going until men become second-class citezens. Is that fair to my son (or me for that matter) who has done nothing, or will do nothing, to females but treat them equally and with the same respect he gives males.
Another point is the economic one - this campaign is not working. According to the media, feminists and others, D/RV is on the rise, so obviously this campaign (which has run for 3 years now) is economically unsound. While I believe that this is more a result of the ever moving goal posts on the definition of D/RV (it is now considered D/RV if a man raises his voice, doesn’t feel like having sex or even if he says his wife is spending too much money), or the fact that all these agencies are looking for D/RV in a bid to keep themselves going, it must be a wake up call to the economists.
Even if the evidence below does not convince you or even if you really believe this radical feminist drivel, think about this. According to the trumped up lies and half-truths put out about D/RV by the Office for Women themselves, 13% of D/RV victims are men. What about them and their children? Who represents these men and their children? Who cares about these men and their children? Where are the resources (counselling, financial help, shelters) for these men and their children?
PS I will be sending this letter by mail also.
References:
Deconstructing Self-Defense in Wife-to-Husband Violence
Sarantakos, Sotirios. Journal of Men’s Studies. Harriman: Spring 2004. Vol. 12, Iss. 3; p. 277
Domestic Violence in Australia: Are Women and Men Equally Violent.
Bruce Headey, Dorothy Scott, David de Vaus
University of Melbourne La Trobe University
http://www.fact.on.ca/Info/dom/heady99.pdf
Aggression in British Heterosexual Relationships
Michelle Carrado, M.J. George, Elizabeth Loxam, L. Jones and Dale Templar
http://www.batteredmen.com/carrgeo1.htm
Psychology of Women Quarterly. September, 2005 issue. This whole issue is about female violence. See especially; Female Violence Against Intimate Partners, An Introduction. Irene Hanson Frieze.
The Abuse Index: Who’s Throwing Stuff and Who’s Getting Hit
Vigneri, Sara. Men’s Health (USA/Canada) May 2000 Vol 15, Issue 4, p150.
Equal Justice Foundation; http://www.ejfi.org/DV/dv.htm.
The Feminization of Domestic Violence in America: The Woozle Effect Goes Beyond Rhetoric
Coney, Nancy S., Mackey, Wade C. Journal of Men’s Studies. Harriman: Oct 31, 1999. Vol. 8, Iss. 1
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Feminst Quotes: “The thing everyone is pulling their hair out about (divorce) is the thing I’m most proud about”. Germaine Greer 2004.
“If life is to survive on this planet there must be a decontamination … I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of males”. Mary Daly, professor Boston College 2001.
“In a patriarchal society all heterosexual intercourse is rape”. Catherine Mckinnon.
“Men are scum”. Valerie Solanas, 1971.