Don’t you find the following statement absurd:
“He says he’s threatened by her? He’s a star athlete. She’s 5-foot-2, I think, and 105 pounds,” said celebrity New York divorce lawyer Raoul Felder, one of the attorneys representing Joumana Kidd.
If what he is claiming is true, it is disgusting that we still have this idea that women are not capable of terrorizing their husbands in the same way that men can terrorize their wives. Just because a man is bigger doesn’t mean his wife cannot be abusive. Some men are just not violent, believe it or not, and are afraid to do anything because she will likely not be arrested or charged.
Here is an interesting survey – more than 60% of women say it’s OK to hit your husband, and more than 35% have done so.http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetoo…
Is this not a terrible double standard?
p.s. Yes I know I am about to get a wave of angry people writing me emails….
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It is a huge double standard one that should be fixed. If a man went to defend himself when a woman was hitting him he would be the aggressor and in trouble in most situations. It is a sad thing that this is the way things are being viewed and I think alot of it is the feminine action groups. Law makers are afraid to stand up to them because they will go off about how they support abusers and such and destroy their career just because they dont agree with every feminist view. It is ridiculous. The feminist want equal rights except when it will hinder them.
I live in Paradise Valley Arizona and was Jason’s neighbor when he lived and played for the Suns, I have had them over my house on many occasions, let me tell you I thought Joumana was a very overbearing, abusive mean person. She tried to be in control of everything. She was lazy and non trusting of Jason from the time we met her. He should have divorced her when he she first prompted him to hit her. Personally you should not hit woman, but she deserved to get her BUTT KICKED.
If you can spare the points to ask this again, I’d recommend putting into the Womans Studies section under Social Science. Clearly an area dedicated to men would be ideal for this but seeing as Yahoo decided you didn’t really deserve your own space, womens studies will certainly open a debate on your question and no doubt bring those hate filled emails you are expecting.
I’ll answer it there if you post it. If not I will edit here with an answer to the question. Which in short is, you’re right, it is disgusting!
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