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Feminists in denial about how they are failing girls.

Filed under: General — Vman @ 2:44 pm Wed 2nd June 2010

There is ever growing awareness of the negative outcomes of modern feminism. Feminists themselves of course refuse to acknowledge any responsibilities.

Read this – http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/01/2914863.htm

The New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics says there has been a 15 per cent increase in the number of violent incidents on schools grounds involving girls in the past five years.

Those figures prompted Charles Darwin University psychology lecturer, Dr Peter Forster, to say that the rise of feminism could be responsible for girls’ aggressive behaviour.

OK so nothing anyone with a brain couldn’t accept as reasonable and supported by the evidence. Well…

But NSW Women’s Electoral Lobby coordinator Kathleen Swinbourne says that is ludicrous.

“Some people try and blame feminism for anything. Feminism is not responsible for all the ills in the world,” she said.

“It’s not responsible for women being violent. In all my research on feminism I don’t remember hearing, seeing or reading anything that says women are entitled to be as violent as men are.”

WTF?

But wait there is more:

Ms Swinbourne says there are still many misconceptions about feminism.

“I hear it constantly out talking to people. It used to be the stereotype of the hairy legs, overalls etc and now there seems … maybe that feminism is an ‘anything goes’ type concept,” she said.

Ms Swinbourne says the feminist position is opposed to violence regardless of the perpetrator’s gender.

Oh really? Since when?
What a ludicrous claim!

Here are some reports and some peer reviewed work with real data that back up the link between feminism and violence.

FAMILY VIOLENCE A report from: Family Resources & Research

How feminism endorses violence against men.

U.S. Feminism, Gender Violence, and the Politics of Empire

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