OUR CULTURE HAS CHOSEN MEN AS PERPETRATORS AND WOMEN AS VICTIMS

 OUR CULTURE HAS CHOSEN MEN AS PERPETRATORS AND WOMEN AS VICTIMS

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

 

Our media has emphasized the victimization of females. When police are called into a domestic violence home situation overwhelmingly the male figure is asked to leave or is charged with domestic violence since women are considered “the weaker sex.”  Men are normally stronger than women although women can use physical objects as weapons and can act as instigators. 

 

Men are also victimized throughout our society. The statistics found in the United States demonstrate a shocking picture of the plight of men in our judicial system. The mental stability of men is frighteningly low since 76% of all suicides are committed by men in the US. Men comprise 85% of all homelessness which is not conducive to physical and mental health. Women are 30% of the homicide victims while men make up rest of the 70% of the homicide victims. Women may be considered the weaker sex but with a weapon, they can become powerful opponents.

 

This is surprising since the media emphasizes through television and movies the plight of females by the more powerful and explosive males.  Supposedly the females are considered the lesser of the two although in our current culture this is not always true.

 

 Even more difficult to understand, when the police come into a domestic violence situation, they will normally charge the man and not arrest the female. Although this is not common knowledge, 40% of men are declared as the victims in these domestic violence cases. 

Additionally, men serve 64% longer prison sentences than women and are 3.4 times more likely to serve time in prison for committing the same crime. The reality is the man usually is seen as stronger than the woman and is seen as the culprit and the woman as the victim.

 

The media has played up female victimization while practically ignoring the cultural prejudice leveled against men in many societal situations. Young girls fit in better in school than boys. Boys comprise the greater number of problem students acting out while girls are seemingly more compliant and are better students than boys in early academics. Young males often settle problems with brute force while girls are often catty, spreading innuendos and falsehoods. 

 

Obviously, law enforcement is more coercive when entering a physical crisis situation than merely a verbal disagreement. They establish their power with a strong show of force with an upset male while acting calmer with the female.

 

Law enforcers understand that men can be more physically dangerous than females. This is the driving force for arresting the male and usually not the female in a domestic violence situation. Although 76% of homicide victims are men.  Additionally, the more aggressive males, 64% spend more time in prison for the same crime as a female perpetrator. 

 

Men are usually bigger and stronger than females. When upset, males can be more dangerous than females. However, in certain situations females can be more violent and intimidating than males especially when females are involved with alcohol or drugs. 

 

This means that men and women are not treated the same in domestic violence encounters.

These differences demonstrate this dichotomy is not viable and should be stricken from our woke sexual agenda.

 

The equality between men and women should be less stereotyped and more nuanced in anything that is dealing with physical violence. Attempting to explain and decide the specific behavior of the two individuals, male and female, there are too many variables in personalities to make a blanket statement such as, all women are rational and conciliatory in confrontations while males are aggressive, hostile, and violent. In other words, not all men are perpetrators of domestic violence or are all women victims.

 

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers and blogs, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and the latest book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.