(Open Letter
to The Prime Minister)
Dear Mr. Christopher Hipkins,
On 28th March 2023, I heard you say on TV One (at 07:24 AM) that most
sexual and domestic violence is committed by men. You
did not provide any evidence.
I realise that you studied Political Science and Criminology at Victoria
University of Wellington, which is a moronic, violent, female-dominated
dump, so you may not understand the need to provide evidence to support
your statements.
Your female interviewer also did not ask you
for evidence. She just listened to you happily and thought,
"He's singing our song!"
After all, it was TVNZ who produced hours of anti-male propaganda about
male-on-female crime, without any debate or right of reply.
Under the Official Information Act, could you please inform me:
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whether your Government's policy is to oppress men by outlawing
any rational debate of anti-male propaganda;
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and whether your Government considers that Democracy is well-served
by media which produce anti-male propaganda and never question anti-male
propaganda when uttered by politicians?
I refer you to Professor Fiebert's Annotated
Bibliography of Domestic Violence, which demonstrates "that
women are as physically aggressive as men (or more) in their relationships
with their spouses or opposite-sex partners." Some of these
studies relate to New Zealand:
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Magdol, L., Moffitt, T. E., Caspi, A., Fagan, J., Newman, D. L.,
& Silva, P. A. (1997). Gender differences in partner violence
in a birth cohort of 21 year Olds: bridging the gap between clinical
and epidemiological approaches. Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology, 65, 68-78. (Used CTS with a sample of 861 21 year Olds
<436 men, 425 women> in New Zealand. Physical violence perpetration
was reported during the previous 12 months by 37.2% of women and
21.8% of men, with severe violence perpetration by women at 18.6%
and men at 5.7%.)
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Moffitt, T. E., Robins, R. W., & Caspi, A. (2001). A couples
analysis of partner abuse with implications for abuse-prevention
policy. Criminology & Public Policy, 1 (1), 5-36. (A representative
longitudinal sample of 360 young-adult couples in New Zealand completed
a 13 item physical abuse scale. Results reveal that 40% of males
and 50% of females had perpetrated at least one act of physical
violence toward their partners.)
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Fergusson, D. M., Horwood, L. J., & Ridder, E. M. (2005).
Partner violence and mental health outcomes in a New Zealand birth
cohort. Journal of Marriage and Family, 67, 1103-1119. (Examined
extent of domestic violence experience and perpetration in a sample
of 828 <437 women, 391 men> young adults who were 25 years
old. Subjects were part of a long term longitudinal study and were
administered the CTS2. Results reveal that "there were more
men exposed to severe domestic violence than women" and that
mild and moderate rates were similar for men and women. Overall,
39.4% of women and 30.9% of men reported perpetration scores of
3 or higher. Authors report that men and women reported similar
rates of injury <3.9% for women vs. 3.3% for men>. In terms
of initiation of partner assaults, 34% of women and 12% of men reported
initiating physical assaults.)
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Ehrensaft, M. K., Moffitt, T. E., & Caspi, A. (2004). Clinically
abusive relationships in an unselected birth cohort: men's and women's
participation and developmental antecedents. Journal of Abnormal
Psychology, 113 (2), 258-270. (Assessed 980 individuals, ages 24-26,
who were participants in longitudinal study in New Zealand. Subjects
were examined with the CTS, the Partner Conflict Calendar, PCC,
a measure of the consequences of abuse and a variety of personality
and psychopathology scales. Findings reveal that 9% of the total
sample, with an equal number of men and women, were victims of clinical
abuse in their relationships with partners.)
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Jackson, S. M., Cram, F. & Seymour, F. W. (2000). Violence
and sexual coercion in high school students' dating relationships.
Journal of Family Violence, 15, 23-36. (In a New Zealand sample
of senior high school students <200 women, 173 men> 21% of
women and 19% of men reported having been physically hurt by their
heterosexual dating partner.)
And yet another study:
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Lewis, A. & Sarantakos, S. (2001). Domestic Violence and the
male victim. Nuance, #3. (Based on interviews with 48 men in Australia
and New Zealand, authors present findings that domestic violence
by women toward men exists, that the refusal to examine the prevalence
of this abuse is a "disempowerment" of men and that official
policy should be changed to provide help for abused men.).
I realise that you used to be the Minister for the State Services,
so you may be aware of the regular New Zealand Crime & Victims Survey.
I have had to criticise it for anti-male bias
in the past. There is no possibility of that survey ever being
professional or unbiased, while you have a Ministry For Women, but no
Ministry for Men. I have already told you about the following encounter
with an employee of the Ministry for Women at Victoria University of
Wellington:
One day, I was attending a tutorial, as part of a course in the
School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington. It was
probably my first tutorial for that course. I was sitting opposite
a tall and strongly-built Maori or Polynesian woman, who was working
for the Ministry of Women's Affairs (as it was called at that time,
I think). At one point, she blurted out something like, "Men
have never done anything for women!" I replied that men gave
women the vote.
She had no reply to that, so she said, "Change the subject!"
The male lecturer in charge of the tutorial looked as if he was about
to obey her command -- she was a woman, after all, and this was a
New Zealand university, so she had to be obeyed, I suppose!
However, I said that she had no right to change the subject.
The lecturer did not seem to understand why, so I had to explain to
him that she was not in charge of the tutorial -- HE was the person
in charge. He took my point, but he changed the subject anyway. After
the class, I saw that woman go up to the lecturer and ask to change
her tutorial and I never saw her again. She was obviously too stupid
and too totalitarian to cope with rational discussion, which she had
obviously never come across in the Public Service!
There is absolutely no chance of a Public Service staffed by people
like that producing valid research on anything involving men.
The situation with sexual violence is even worse, because there seems
to be little research into female sexual violence. Here is a quote
from "Perspectives on Female Sex Offending: A Culture of Denial",
by Myriam S. Denov:
"... the training that I received in both social work and
criminology had never mentioned or even insinuated that women could
be perpetrators of sexual abuse."
I am sure that the Leftist, Feminist Criminology
department which you attended would have been similar.
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