Bells:
So in your view, a real man would either strike back at the woman or kick her arse to the curb? A man who does things legally, ie call the police and have her arrested for assaulting him, is a weak individual and thus, not a real man?
Yes. Having to call the law to stop a woman from hurting oneself? Utterly absurd!
Common? Yes. Acceptable? No.
Quite acceptable.
It is not a valid defense.
I'm talking to practically all my male friends about this. They've come back with complete disapproval of a man who would be beaten up by his own woman.
So a woman suffering beatings at the hands of her husband should also not involve law enforcement officers because they should not be there to "adjudicate" her disputes? In that case, police officers should never break up a brawl, never arrest someone who's threatening his or her family members with a weapon? Both are personal disputes. Yet the police do respond to such instances. Why not for a man who is being beaten by his wife? Oh wait, because real men handle things themselves and only cowards call the police.
Women are not held to the same standards, although I'd prefer if the police were never brought into private matters. As such, I'll allow a woman to hide behind the law - it is, after all, not her place to be courageous.
But no, I don't think that police should ever break up consensual combat (a brawl).
A man threatening his family with a weapon deserves to be arrested. A woman threatening her family with a weapon deserves to be wrestled to the ground and subdued and then kicked to the curb.
Would you call the police if someone stole your car? Would you call the police if someone was breaking into your house? After all, it is your business, is it not?
I'd only call the police after the fact. When the person who was attempting to steal my car and break into my house laid bleeding and potentially dead on the floor.
If my car was stolen without me present, I'd call the police, yes, so I could get back said car. Simply because finding one's car on one's own would be practically impossible in this situation.
You are wrong. Men in court have convicted female domestic abusers (women who beat their husbands). You are assuming that the male on the jury will judge the accused from his male point of view and not from a legal standpoint.. that is to say, did the individual break the law in his or her actions. Whether he has his own ideals about what a real man would do does not matter. What does matter is whether the accused broke the law.
I am pretty sure I could convince a jury of men to see how I would not want to call the police.
Furthermore, you are expecting people to judge the law "based from the law". This never happens. That is precisely why there are such things as chosen juries. OJ Simpson got off because the jury was filled with blacks, for instance.
In that sense, the legal system neuters the male ideal of what it is to be a real man. It brings all down to a level playing field where such archaic beliefs do not matter. What does matter is the legality of the actions of the accused.
Thankfully, it doesn't work that way. Furthermore, I can point out the rationality of my actions through the consistency of my viewpoints. "Why did I not call the police?" "Because would you call a police when a woman was trying to beat you up? No, it would be absurd."
One would hardly be friends with people who did not in some way or other, share such intrinsic beliefs about one's sex and society in itself. Ask a police officer how he would react if called to a domestic disturbance where the woman was beating her partner, whether he'd tell the guy to buck up and be a man and whether he would arrest the woman or not.
If I am ever in the presence of one, I'll ask. I don't tend to meet cops on a regular basis. I did, however, tell one to go fuck himself mistakenly the other week. That was hilarious.
And your attitude and those of your friend(s) is basically at the root of this issue and the reason why male domestic violence victims remain victims. Well done.
I'm proud of it. I hate cowards and half-men. They disgust me.
So you would put your own pride over the health and wellbeing of your child?
Heh..
Yes.
I can assure you, every single male I have ever known who happens to have children would disagree with you. If there was a gun to their child's head and they were told to eat shit or the child dies, they'd eat the shit to save their child. One's pride goes out the window when one's child is in danger.
I take the Mossada approach in life. If need be, I'm willing to kill my woman and children to prevent them from slavery and death.
How is the police doing your dirty work in arresting a woman who has broken the law? You are not above the law PJ. You are so caught up on the issue of respect that you disrespect every single other male and female on this planet. Wife beaters and husband beaters are scum.
One should deal with one's own problems as much as is possible. Calling the police for a woman beating you up? How cowardly and pathetic do you need to be when you refuse to yourself handle things like this?
Why yes, you could say he had a sexual complex, even!
But seriously speaking: The experience of Freud regarding his father's emasculation at the hand of the Jew hater is an example of the psychological child abuse a father being a coward can have on his son.