The Law Of Gender Violence

Mary Malone writes:
Over the past few years, both in this country and on the Continent, there have been campaigns against violence that is perpetrated against women by men, particularly what is known as 'domestic violence'. The campaigns work from a premise that there are many women who are attacked by their menfolk on a regular and systematic basis, which is somewhat surprising as culturally, in this country at least, and amongst the indigenous population, men have traditionally repudiated violent men, particularly those who hit women. Amongst indigenous Englishmen, hitting a woman is an absolute taboo.
However, the definition of violence is extended so as to bring in more victims. A woman may verbally abuse a man, and a woman may be 'controlling' but these are not crimes. Only when a man is verbally abusive or controlling is it a crime. The idea behind the campaign is that there are millions of women cowering in fear of brutal husbands, having their individuality crushed out of them.
Just one look around us and we can see what patent rubbish this is.
Yet the campaigns go on. And in Spain, for the past ten years they have had the Law of Gender Violence. This keystone legislation, discriminating against men, was passed by the mostly male Spanish parliament.
It's 'success' can be measured by the fact that by 2010, 13% of the prison population consisted of men punished under this legislation.
The imprisoned men were punished for crimes, which had they been perpetrated by a woman, would have been treated as mere misdemeanors.
During its first five years, one hundred thousand men were convicted under this law. There are one hundred thousand denunciations annually, and according to the government this is only a quarter of 'real' figure, meaning that the 9,000 men currently serving time under this law should rise to 36,000, increasing Spain's prison population by 50%.
Yet the number of women murdered by their partners rises year by year. Either the increase in violence is due to the increase in immigrant communities, and it would be racist to suggest such a thing, or it is caused by a rise in bitterness and hostility between the sexes, caused by this divisive law, the endless harping anti-male propaganda in the media, and the inversion of values in the education system, where girls and boys are taught to sneer at their own gender, and at their own selves.
By pitting women against men, the Capitalist Patriarchal State once again divides in order to rule. By inciting discord between women and men, the military and police apparatus can intrude in to the most intimate recesses of social and family life. Men are kept under surveillance - they must beware lest words and deeds can be misconstrued.
Massive manipulation of the population through re-education walks hand in hand with massive control of the population through police methods. Men, who have always seen themselves as the providers and protectors of women, are now portrayed, and encouraged to be, vain, egotistical and childish.
What was once seen as manly self-sacrifice is now portrayed as selfish oppression. Simply for a man to love his family has become a crime, preventing a woman from taking her place within the hierarchy.