Isn't it a fact that any facility that gets federal, state or county tax dollars is forbidden by law to deny services to anyone, regardless of race, creed, sexual preference or gender? Have you ever complained to anyone in your government about the discrimination against male victims when they refuse to let a man enter a shelter because he's a man? Yet, the hypocrisy of it all is very evident when it comes to making plumbing or carpentry repairs or remodeling, or getting funding form a corporation that is owned or controlled by a man, or snow plowing or shoveling needs to be done. Then, it's time to get a man to do it.
These women at the shelters supposedly are assigned daily "chores or tasks," yet they don't assign them to do snow shoveling, minor repairs, or changing tires on their vehicles, etc. Not any of the "dirty, manual labor" stuff that they can pay a man to do ... with taxpayer and United Way funds. Nice racket, eh?
So is domestic abuse a "gender" issue? Have you ever wondered why it is that all domestic abuse offices are staffed 100 percent by females? The lone exception to that is in Minneapolis, MN, the Hennepin County Domestic Abuse Office, which has a "hands on" supervisor-director, Mr. Dan Pugh. Hennepin County has the most progressive, enlightened, experienced and dedicated domestic abuse staff anywhere in the entire country. The women who work there treat every person that enters that office the same, man or woman, and do an excellent job helping anyone who comes to them. I have no doubt whatsoever that this is a direct result of the former director's efforts, Ms. Mary Griffith, who ran that office for approximately 10 years until about a year ago. Needless to say, Mary had some battered women's advocates that were clamoring for her head and wanted her fired, none of which happened I am glad to report. We need more people such as those in the Minneapolis office in other domestic abuse offices. Especially men.
I suggest that you find out what it takes to get a job as a domestic abuse "advocate" in your city or county, and men, being that you are definitely a "minority" within this field, you should stand a strong chance of being hired under the good ol' affirmative action plan. I encourage you to go for it. Many of these positions are civil service, government listings.
I want it to be known that I am for equality, especially when it comes to domestic violence and family court issues. If a man slaps a woman across the face, or pushes her, "he did the crime and he can do the time." I have absolutely no problem then, granting the same equality to any woman who assaults and abuses a man. The cell door will slam behind her in the same manner as for a man, and it will be an equal sized cell, too.
I am for equality when a man calls the cops for help, saying that his female partner has slapped, pushed, scratched, thrown things at him, kicked him, etc. Then let her be arrested equally as fast as men are, and let her be removed from the home on the Order for Protection scam just as fast as a man is. I demand that this equality be given to and applied to women, lest I be labeled as "anti-equality."
Finally, in closing I would like to pay tribute to those wise elders, those leaders in the men's movement who share their wisdom, their mistakes, and experiences with us, so that we too, may continue to learn.
As President Teddy Roosevelt said, "Credit belongs to the man who really was in the arena, his face marred by dust, sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs to come short and short again, because here is no effort without error and shortcoming.
"It is the man who actually strives to do the deeds, who knows the great enthusiasm, and knows the great devotion, who spends himself on a worthy cause, who, at best, knows in the end the triumph of great achievement. And who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and cruel souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
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