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Apr 23 casusbelli commented on The Federal Way Shooting Was a Domestic Violence Incident, Say Police.

@blip, Matt from Denver, delirian: this is not a zero-sum game. Pointing out that female perpetrated domestic violence against men exists, and is underreported because of an institutionalized gender bias that feminists like Ellen Pence helped work into our criminal justice system is not to say that women are not ever (or often) victims, or that the public policies in place exist for no reason other than systemic discrimination against men. What I am saying is that our society is very, very quick to protect women and that this tendency--however legitimate and well meaning--has given female abusers the ability to abuse their male partners physically, emotionally, and legally. I would know. And my very specific point was that in this context a domestic violence registry will make things worse.

There must be some policy path that can better protect both women and men, but minimizing female perpetrated domestic violence is harmful to men (and as some of the articles Adversary linked to argued, to women as well) just as minimizing male perpetrated domestic violence is harmful to women (and probably men as well).

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Apr 22 casusbelli commented on The Federal Way Shooting Was a Domestic Violence Incident, Say Police.

@21, how about some stats on women getting "shot in the head with a fucking gun" to substantiate your claim that it "happens all the time." Listen, I am not saying that intimate partner violence is never perpetrated by men, or that it never in some exceptional and newsworthy instances results in murder. What I am saying is that the reaction against it is so extreme as to make men victims of women who are willing to use the law and the biases of those in the criminal justice system to abuse their male partners. There needs to be some middle ground in which our society can protect people against violent actors without profiling so severely that a mass of innocents get swept up with the guilty, or worse still, that male victims of domestic violence are too afraid (as I was) to call the police. And I am most certainly saying that creating a domestic violence registry would compound the problem.

Apr 22 casusbelli commented on The Federal Way Shooting Was a Domestic Violence Incident, Say Police.

@17, sure that sounds good on it's face, but are you aware that if a woman hits a man and that man tries to defend himself by, I don't know, restraining her, that man is likely to be arrested, charged, and convicted of a crime that will label him a domestic violence perpetrator? My ex would fly into rages and hit me and I was always terrified because I felt if I called the police, the police would arrest me and not her. I tested this once and while I wasn't arrested, the police did kick me out of my apartment and offered her a restraining order. I am not saying that there are no male perpetrators of domestic violence but I am saying that such a registry would unfairly list people (especially men) who are not abusive but who were wrongly convicted by an overzealous criminal justice system.

Jan 8 casusbelli commented on Let's Not Pretend That Trapping Mexicans with Tacos Isn't Racist.

Mexican is not a race.

Dec 6, 2012 casusbelli commented on Jon Stewart Shows Proof That Senate Republicans Haven't Learned a Damn Thing.

I agree that the Senate should have ratified this treaty, especially as it would have no effect on U.S. courts. The ADA, however, is not without problems.

Nov 29, 2012 casusbelli commented on It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Because....

Get back to me when the sumo mandarins are in season.

Nov 29, 2012 casusbelli commented on The Kitchen Is Our Egg.

"People who live in the city do not really need a kitchen (or a big one). It would make more sense for us to turn over the boring business of the kitchen to places outside the house, to places run by those who can actually cook for a living. "

My wife does actually cook for a living. Also, we live in a city. Do we get a pass?

Nov 7, 2012 casusbelli commented on HOLY SHIT!!! Washington State Legalizes Marijuana!.

I never thought this day would come.

Aug 31, 2012 casusbelli commented on Tap Water Fights Back.

I lived in D.C. from '02-05 and during that time the water department sent out warning letters to residents advising that the water supply was contaminated with toxic amounts of lead. Needless to say, sales of bottled water sky rocketed. I don't know how much has changed but I would rather drink bottled water while in D.C.

Aug 23, 2012 casusbelli commented on Dan Savage vs. Brian Brown: The Dinner Table Debate.

@79, Please read the 14th amendment and pay special attention to the equal protection clause. The question of immutability may have important bearing on whether the Supreme Court considers sexual orientation to be a suspect class vis-á-vis the 14th amendment. If so, then the denial of marriage eligibility to homosexual couples is unconstitutional and neither the states nor the federal government can prohibit it.

As it stands, the Court does not consider sexual orientation a suspect class and thus the current state of things. I get that you are unequivocally opposed to gay marriage but please don't confuse "state" and "society." Your society can continue to refuse to recognize homosexual marriage. The state (i.e., state and federal governments), however, may or may not be able to depending on, inter alia, whether and how the question of immutability resolves the question of suspect class eligibility for sexual orientation.