The Duluth Model

[Kalki Avatar]

I live in the namesake town and I have actually been a victim of this decidely fucked up way of dealing with domestic situations.

http://www.standyourground.com/letter.php

Sign this if you believe that this needs to change.

[Monty Cantsin]

We’ve half touched on this topic before, violence and sexism not domestic violence in particular. Talking about how hitting humans being outside self-defence and in proportion to the threat of harm is wrong regardless of sex. It was pretty much agreed on from what I remember.

the "Duluth Model" in their work with domestic violence. This model assumes
that domestic violence is the fault of the man and sees the woman as the perennial victim. It assumes that men, by nature, oppress women. It also claims that the origins of domestic violence are the fault of men. Not some men, not men with impulse control disorders, but ALL MEN. It literally sees violence as masculine. In fact the men in treatment are required to admit that they oppress women prior to treatment. This isn't psychotherapy this is indoctrination.

This model also ignores alcohol as a causative factor in domestic violence. Research again shows conclusively that well over half of all domestic violence is related to alcohol and its disastrous consequences to the impulse control of both men and women. The Duluth model maintains that alcohol is not involved, that domestic violence is a totally sociopolitical problem.

see if this is true then its definably wrong. We should have a flexible system which examines each case to determine who is the propitiator and who the victim is. But system’s which try and equate masculinity with oppressiveness and violence and femineity with weakness and passivity are bi-sexist.

I don’t know how to achieve this though, in a perfect world somethings just wouldn’t happen.