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I swear I'm starting to think about voting for Republicans, a group I despise! I challenge you, Rachael, or any woman to tell us why we need a special law to punish men for violence against women. I challenge you to name one law that gives any special privledge to men.
Let me mention some areas that women have special privledge. Laws that are intentionally biased in their favor:
Child custody laws, Spousal support in divorce, domestic violence laws, violence against women, Social Security, Medicare, Rape laws. Why is a beating punished more for a woman getting hit than for a man? Why were men drafted and never women? Why do men die at a 1000 to 1 rate defending the country? Why do men have to live in rented rooms while be force to pay most of their earnings to an X wife? Why can women start a fight then have a man thrown in jail for finishing it? Why is unwanted sex punished like it was murder?
You and I know that it is just a long effort to place men under the control of women and use the police and courts to enforce it. The lesson from the John Edwards case is not about having sex with someone else, it is to never trust a woman (Rielle Hunter in this case) to use birth control. They are either too stupid or looking for 18 years of support.
What law protects men from greedy, lying women? Men wake up!
Rachael, you can't meet my challenge and of course you won't try.
R U kidding me Wholewitt? I have another name for you but it isn't nice.. Men made the laws that cover all your complaints. Geez dude wake up and maybe do a little history check. Your rant is based on you not knowing a thing about the history of the U.S. and who has been in charge and who made all the laws up until recently when women were elected to congress and the senate. You hate women that is without a doubt. I on the other hand love women. Why would Rachel waste her time on your hate filled rant....
Why don't you address what he said rather than jumping to the usual "you're just threatened by strong women/you just hate women" card? Either that or just tell him to "shut up" it's fundamentally what you're trying to do anyway. Can we also get over the "evil patriarchy" women as perpetual victims crap, men being screwed over doesn't have anything to do with women being downtrodden until they were "elected to congress" and apparently fixed everything on their own since men couldn't or wouldn't do it.... Incidentally I believe what you should have said was do a revisionist history check, not a history check those aren't the same thing but by all means continue making enemies where you didn't need to.
You know, I generally agree with most of what you say at least in principle if nothing else but this unrelenting defense of VAWA is something that I simply cannot understand coming from someone who supposedly is for equal rights for everyone.
The VAWA is an inherently (and frankly with its problems being well known yet renewed without positive revision I must say intentionally) flawed piece of legislation that strips civil rights away from every male in the United States in order to provide additional rights to women.
These additional rights can and are used easily and without repercussion for women or recourse for men to legally abuse males. I would like to know when/if you have any intention of talking about this? For that matter if your show has any intention of even acknowleding this issue?
As a man in the United States to watch your program and see you railing against opponents of this legislation as if they are all cave men and wife beaters is disingenuous; how would you like it if I arged against women's rights by citing only Andrea Dworkin or Valerie Solanas?
Also in light of the problems pervasive in this law, quibbling about the infringement of rights for women who are both "mail order brides" as well as abused as if this is the biggest issue with it is insulting.
Can I please make a suggestion for a cross-over way to cover these two items? The mail-order bride thing is something I bring up quite frequently in arguments with religious types about gay marriage. I find it extremely frustrating that people can gain access to immigration because a man has essentially purchased them off the internet for marriage purposes.
I'm an American lesbian and I live in the UK because I don't have the same rights that a straight man has. My partner is Scottish and I can't do anything to sponsor her for immigration. We've been together for 11 years.
People forget that for all the rights that states grant when they allow its gay residents to marry (like in Iowa, for instance), immigration is a FEDERAL issue. So, I can't go to Iowa and marry my partner. She'd have to be an American (and one of us might have to be a resident of Iowa...though I'm not sure about that). Before I can sponsor my partner, ALL of America would have to say yes to gay marriage. (Though getting rid of DOMA may help jump start that.)
But, some socially inept, potentially abusive gent with the money and a wifi connection can order and sponsor a bride from practically anywhere in the world. It's nerve-shredding.
I know TRMS is covering violence against women and gay marriage right now. Can we point out the hypocrisy of rallying for the 'sanctity' of marriage whilst we live in a country where buying your bride online is still cool? How is that credit-card based relationship better than mine? How is that consumer-based marriage sacred?
Luckily, we live in the UK now--my partner and I. It WAS just voted the best place in Europe to live if you're gay. So...there's that. But, I miss NYC pizza and rest of America too. Plus, it should just be my right that I can sponsor my long-term partner.
Love the show, Rachel.