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Domestic Violence: A Cultural Pandemic?
By James WF Roberts
By James WF Roberts
With all of the coverage of the attacks on Paris, the re-emergence of Reclaim Australia, and the Syrian refugee crisis that is getting worse on a daily basis, and the moral and legal quagmire of the world's powers taking the fight to ISIS, one of the most important domestic and foreign issues that is finally being highlighted and given real Prime Ministerial attention is the issue of domestic violence. Without focusing on the political issue of what Pauline Hanson and many other pundits have said about how "Islam is oppressive to women…" the most shocking article I have ever read on domestic violence has been published today on the web and in most of Australia's leading news outlet. According to this article on www.news.com.au,
"The dangerous attitudes young Aussie kids absorb about domestic violence'; 'by the age of 10, young Australian boys are downplaying and excusing sexist and violent outbursts, and girls are already blaming themselves for this behaviour'. The research, which will shape a $30 million national domestic violence prevention campaign, reveals primary-school aged children think violence against females is acceptable in some circumstances.
It exposes a deeply concerning tendency among Australian kids and teens to blame female victims, and excuse, empathise with, and minimise the behaviour of male perpetrators"
The shameful article goes on to say, "as a part of the research, children were asked to respond to a number of scenarios depicting gender inequality and aggression, and their responses have stunned policy makers.
"It wasn't that bad ... it's not like he punched her … if there was an injury, then it would be bad", one girl aged between 10 and 14 says.
"She said something he didn't like … the girls were being mean," says a 10-14 year old boy excusing an aggressive outburst.
Even the adult parents surveyed displayed worrying attitudes, with a father responding to a scenario where his son throws a bottle at a girl in a fit of rage with the offhand comment: "boys will be boys".
I am sorry—what? WHAT? Boys will be fucking boys? Christ and we wonder why so many young women are the victims of sexual assault every day and why so many women are murdered by a current or ex-spouse, he throws a fucking bottle at a girl in a fit of rage? How the fuck is that not attempted murder, or at least attempted assault?
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the research paints "a disturbing picture" about the views many Australians have about domestic violence.
"It tells us that far too many people excuse, diminish and blame the victim when it comes to violence against women, now that is utterly unacceptable," he said.
"These are attitudes we have to change, these are big cultural changes we need to effect."
The research reveals boys as young as 10 are quick to blame aggressive and sexist behaviours on others, particularly females, where as young girls are quick to blame themselves.
Girls as young as 10 are also quick to downplay disrespectful and aggressive behaviour from males, even physical violence, while boys display a high level of empathy toward other males who exhibit disrespectful or aggressive behaviour.
Social Services Minister Christian Porter called the research "eye-opening".
"The research seems to show that young people continue to hold views that implicitly accept violence," Mr Porter said.
I am guessing that the majority of young people in the questionnaire where of White/European/Anglo-Saxon background. I am not making any argument about whether or not all white people thing this way etc. I am white and I certainly do not agree with this attitude, nor do I disagree with the findings of the study. I am under no illusions of how women are seen in our culture. We live in a phallocentric, adolescent male gaze orientated world; almost everything we do in our society perpetuate the horrific ideal of women being second class citizens, compared to a man. How many mainstream TV shows, Movies, books, stories, myths, focus on the strong macho man, the strong silent type, the Hero every boy can become…and what is there for a woman, for a little girl? A wife, a mother, a mawkish daughter or the prostitute/slut archetype?
Everyone is effected by domestic violence, in one way or another. Domestic violence doesn't have to be a punch in the face, or show any scars, families, friends, children—everyone is effected by a relationship inside domestic violence.
I am angry at this report, it sickens me the double-standard we have in the community towards White—mainstream culture and what we consider the religious oppression writ-large that we have for so long accused Islam of practicing. It is always in the News and I know of a particular woman in my former hometown of Bendigo, a particular city-councillor who is highly involved in the Stop the Mosque campaign.
But, of the Islamic attitude towards women in religion and in the Koran?
A very insightful and interesting article I have often used in relation to the problem of Islam and female oppression can be found here: http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/3344/does-islam-oppress-women/
"Fourteen hundred years ago Islam gave women rights; rights that could not have been imagined by European counterparts. Bold words! Words that have been spoken repeatedly, especially in the last two or three decades by Muslim converts, and Islamic writers, academics and educators across the globe. Women's rights, responsibilities, and choices have been the subject of books, articles, essays, and lectures. Sadly however, convincing the world that Muslim women are not oppressed by Islam is a message that is just not getting through. Media headlines scream oppression and the words Muslim, women, and oppression seem to have become inextricably linked".
"The most visible sign of a Muslim woman's faith is the headscarf or hijab; it is also the garment that leads people to believe that Islam oppresses women. Although Islamic scholars unanimously agree that modest dress and head coverings are obligatory in Islam, for the majority of Muslim women around the world, to cover, or not to cover, is a freely made choice. The women who chose to wear hijab view it as a right, not a burden and many describe wearing hijab as liberation from the need to conform to unrealistic stereotypes and images dictated by the media.
And the report goes on to discuss what Islamic women say about themselves in relation to the issue of oppression, "in 2005, a World Gallup Poll entitled, What women Want: Listening to the voices of Muslim Woman, revealed that the majority of women polled, in predominantly Muslim countries resented lack of unity among Muslim nations, violent extremism, and political and economic corruption. The headscarf or hijab, or any garment covering the face and body, often depicted as a tool of oppression was not even mentioned"
The report concluded that "...most women in the Muslim world are well aware that they have the same capabilities and deserve the same fundamental rights as men. Majorities of females in each of the eight countries surveyed said they believe women are able to make their own voting decisions, to work at any job for which they are qualified, and even to serve in the highest levels of government."
"Islam raised the level of women, they were no longer chattels being passed from father to husband. They became equal to men, with rights and responsibilities that take into account the nature of humankind. Unfortunately across the globe, Muslim women are victims of cultural aberrations that have no place in Islam. Powerful individuals and groups claim to be Muslim yet fail to practice the true principles of Islam. Whenever the media reveals unconscionable stories about honour killings, genital mutilation, forced marriage, the punishment of rape victims, women being confined to their homes or women being denied education they are revealing a tale of men and women who are ignorant about the status of women in Islam.
"O you who believe! You are forbidden to inherit women against their will, and you should not treat them with harshness, that you may take away part of the bridal money you have given them. And live with them honourably. If you dislike them, it may be that you dislike a thing and God brings a great deal of good through it." (Quran 4:19)
"The religion of Islam demands that women be treated with respect, honour, and justice. It condemns oppression of any kind. In Islam women, like men, are commanded to believe in God and to worship Him. Women are equal to men in terms of reward in the Hereafter"
"And whoever does righteous good deeds, male or female, and is a true believer in the Oneness of God, such will enter paradise; and not the least injustice, even to the size of a speck on the back of a date stone, will be done to them." (Quran 4:124)
"Women in Islam have the right to own property, to control their own money to buy and sell, and to give gifts and charity. It is not permissible for anyone to take a woman's wealth without her consent. Islam gave women formal rights of inheritance. Women in Islam have the right to an education; seeking and acquiring knowledge is an obligation on all Muslims, male or female"
Of course I am not going to copy and paste the entire article or the website into this post, I merely want people to be more educated and to seek things out and find out the truth behind the mass hysteria for themselves.
And—what about the other main Abrahamic traditions have to say on to say about women, in general? Should we look at Leviticus, perhaps? Even though it is one of the maligned and most used book in the bible, when it comes to homophobia and bigotry.
The Uncleanness of Women
Leviticus 15:
19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. 20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. 21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 23 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even. 24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean. 26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation. 27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness."
Doesn't make for good reading about the menstrual cycle does it? Is this not oppressive and condemning of women? If a period of woman, and the woman herself is unclean—of course this is all about original sin and their belief is that we are all dirty, and full of sin until we are cleansed, regardless of that though, how can any woman born into Judaism or Christianity think of herself as anything but unclean and inferior to man—which is of course the whole issue we have here. But, I shall go on,
"19When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.
20'Everything also on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean.…"
Of course there are dozens and dozens more quotes like this from our Judaeo-Christian tradition, and it makes me wonder about so many, many things, not just how we view Islam in comparison to our own traditions. I have been thinking about the Reclaim Australia/United Patriot Front morons and their own crusade to destroy Islam and Domestic Terrorism—I wonder if we calculated how many Australian women have died in acts due to acts of domestic violence over the last 12 months, how much higher would those death rates be compared to how many Australians have died in terrorist acts over the last five years? I am guessing that the Domestic violence stats, are so horrifically high that they would out-number the death caused by terrorist actions.
According to the White Ribbon organisation; "Over 12 months, on average, one woman is killed every week as a result of intimate partner violence. A woman is most likely to be killed by her male partner in her home. Domestic and family violence is the principle cause of homelessness for women and their children. Intimate partner violence is the leading contributor to death, disability and ill-health in Australian women aged 15-44. One in three women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence perpetrated by someone known to them. One in four children are exposed to domestic violence, which is a recognised form of child abuse. The cost of violence against women to the Australian economy is estimated to rise to $15.6 billion per annum. One in five women experience harassment within the workplace. One in five women over 18 has been stalked during her lifetime"
These are horrendous figures.
But I digress. I have witnessed domestic violence towards women in public. I was once at a friend of mine's gallery opening in Castlemaine a few years ago, there were so many other artists, musicians, rappers and poets, myself among them performing at the opening, it was pro-rata gig for a mate, the sort of thing we all do for cheap or free booze and exposure. We were all sitting or standing in the alleyway smoking (not everything entirely legal) and drinking too much and I heard this man, probably no more than 25 years old, if that and his, I guess girlfriend, or partner as we say these days was with their little dog and their young boy, probably around 8 years old maybe a bit younger, after what seemed a normal, casual conversation, the young woman saying, "what time are you going to be finished? What time should I put dinner on…"
"I am not going to be that fucking long. Just fucking wait you, stupid bitch, I told you that before…"
"I was just asking a question. Should I wait here then?"
"Yes. I fucking told you to wait here. Be here when I get back or I will kick you in the cunt".
So many of us turned around and looked, not really horrified, more in shock that the conversation had become so aggressive, so violent with little or no provocation from the woman's part. It is not the only time I have seen transgressions like that happen in public, I have been at Macdonald's, actually at the Boronia Macdonald's right above the train station once, really hungover and feeling the effects of some nefarious things I took at a party, that is probably not the most relevant bit but I do need to highlight that I am not a saint, nor am I trying to be sanctimonious in this article. I was puking my guts up in the men's room and I heard a loud banging on the door. "I'll be just a minute. Gimme a sec". There was no response. Just more and more banging on the door. I finished up and went to investigate the ruckus. Standing outside, the disabled toilet was a man banging on the door.
"Hurry up bitch. We're gonna be late. Still got another hour of driving".
He continued banging on the door until I think she opened it, or he had forced it open. I was hiding behind the door of the men's room, you know didn't want to get involved but I still witnessed it. The woman was a young girl, obviously several months pregnant he went over to his partner and punched her as hard as man could punch someone in the face. I could feel the impact from where I was standing. I remember thinking shit what am I going to do? What should I do…should I run in and intervene, he looks high, he looks dangerous he might have a knife or something. I know, I will go get help from a staff member or there were plenty of men with their families in the dining area I will go and get help. I went to the dining area and I said to this guy who was clearly the manager, 'hey mate I think something should be done about the guy in the toilets…" then there was the scream and the second hit I looked around at all the men, all the families—all of us silent to her screams….I did look for help, I did go to the Cop shop but there was no help to be found. It was closed. I did eventually get some, some assistance from an on duty officer, by the time we got back, the man and the woman were gone.
This is pandemic that we all have a responsibility to cure. Women have the responsibility to better educate themselves and their friends and relatives. And men have a responsibility to teach their sons, their brothers, their nephews--their mates that HITTING A WOMAN, OR ANYONE FOR THAT MATTER is Wrong. No means No. And we all have an unalienable right to respect and human decency.
If you or someone you know is impacted by sexual assault, domestic or family violence, call 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or visit www.1800RESPECT.org.au In an emergency call 000


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I start to cry- no, sob, is a more appropriate word.
I cannot believe that my favorite TV couple just broke up!! All because that man who promised before God that he would be faithful to his woman for the rest of time cheated on her with someone younger! His wife was completely in the right to leave him!
I turn the TV off, and let my tears run their course.
Okay, here's what you should know about the past week: I've been an emotional wreck. It's been so hard the past week. I always had hope that my parents were still alive, but now I had nothing. Just the shattered mess called my life. What was I supposed to do now? They were gone. Really gone.
Oh, God, this hurts.
I wipe my tears away. Crying about every little thing! I shake my head- that wasn't like me. Well, the old me.
Knock, knock, knock.
I sit up suprised at first. Then my next thought- Oh no! I'm a mess, a mess! I'm wearing pajamas! Look at all these tissues! Oh no! I'm not prepared for a visitor!
Then I realize that I don't care. Let them see me like this! I dare them!
I head towards the front door running on pure self- righteousness. I swing it open.
Shoot. I get knocked off my high- horse.
It's Sulley.
He looks me up and down, and I wiggle uncomfortably under his stare. He smiles.
"You're a mess, babe."
As if I already didn't know.
"Can I come in?" He asks. I scrutinize him. Tall. Brown hair, blue eyes. Handsome.
"I guess so. Well, at least my neighbors will be proud." I let him in.
He grins, entering.
"What do you mean?"
"They're always telling me how a pretty young thing like me needs a man. And here you are, on my doorstep. It must be a sign from God. Hallelujah." I usher him to my living room. He sits on a chair, the only piece of furniture not occupied with blankets, pillows, and tissues. I flop on the couch.
Sulley then looks at me seriously.
"How are you?" He asks in earnest.
"What do you think?" I smirk, trying to put on a brave face.
"You're right, stupid question. Are you getting any better?" It then hits me that he actually cares. He's not doing this for brownie points, he's doing it because he wants to know that I'm okay. Which is really sweet.
"I'm getting better. I think. I just feel kind of lost. I mean what next? My family is gone. It's just me."
"I have something for you." He hands me a pocket watch. I look at it, not sure how to respond.
"It was my dad's. My mom died giving birth to me, so he was all I had. He died from a heart attack right before I graduated high school. It was really hard for me, - I didn't feel like moving on. I felt like giving up- but then I realized after a few weeks that I still had great memories of him, and that it was gonna be hard, but I should continue on the way pop woulda wanted. I keep the watch with me because it was his favorite. It reminds me of him. I know it's hard for you too. Probably more so, considering your parents died before their time." I look down at my hands, still holding the watch. Sulley comes over and sits on the couch, putting his hands over mine.
"Maria, look at me." I do, and try not to cry.
"Just because your parents died, doesn't mean that you have to die along with them. And I don't mean physically, I mean that you don't have to stop living life and being happy. I could always tell that you had sadness in you. But it was outshined by all the light in you. It's okay to mourn. Just don't make it your whole life."
I wipe away the tears that have collected, and wrap my arms around him.
"Thanks." I lean back, and look him squarely in the eye. I've made up my mind.
"I need to solve my parents' murder."
"I had a feeling you just might say that." He half smiles, his eyes gleaming.
My heart gives a squeeze, and then I realize I still have my arms around him. I unwrap them, embarrassed.
"Sorry, Sulley." I say looking down.
"It's okay. By the way, call me Patrick."


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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - January 9, 1985, New Braunfels, Texas Reagan's 'Big Three' gone; latest switch gets praise WASHINGTON (AP) — President Reagan is embarking on his second term without the coterie of close aides and advisers who helped propel him into the Oval Office and guided White House operations and policy during his first term. In a spur-of-the-minute, nationally televised announcement, the president surprised even his own staff Tuesday when he disclosed that two of his most senior advisers — Chief of Staff James A. Baker III and Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan — are switching jobs. The president praised the two men as having "compiled outstanding records of achievement" during his first four-year term, and explained the change by saying they sought new opportunities and challenges. Reagan added that he hoped the swap would help them inject "renewed vigor" into their work and that he was confident it would "contribute substantially to our second term." The moves were greeted with general praise on Capitol Hill, where Majority Leader Robert Dole said there were "no losers." Dole described both men as pragmatists who understand the need to reduce the deficit, but he also predicted the staff turnover would not have any affect on the president s opposition to tax increases. Reagan himself addressed that point in an interview Tuesday with The Dallas Morning News. "The true believer in the White House is sitting in the Oval Office," Reagan said. "No one has been whittling at me or trying to change my philosophy since I've been here," the president said. "Sometimes I wonder if some of those very vocal conservatives are really conservatives in conservatives' eyes. They're not in mine." Reagan announced the switch barely 24 hours after it was put to him by his long-time aide and deputy chief of staff, Michael K. Deaver, who revealed his own intentions to leave the White House only last week. According to presidential spokesman Larry Speakes, Deaver, Regan and Baker engineered the staff maneuver during the past several weeks, keeping the president in the dark until they had worked out the details of the arrangement. The 73-year-old president endorsed the plan when it was put before him on Monday, Speakes said. Reagan's style has been to delegate many of the details of management to his staff. Rebels, Vietnamese clash near camp ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand (AP) - Vietnamese troops and Cambodian guerrillas skirmished today outside Ampil camp in Cambodia, which was abandoned Tuesday by the anticommunist resistance fighters, Red Cross officials and Thai army officers said. Between the sporadic clashes along the Thai-Cambodia border, guerrillas of the Khmer People's National Liberation Front were regrouping in preparation for further combat, the Thai officers said. 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Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are an emerging technology with a wide range of applications including environment monitoring, security and surveillance, health care, smart homes, etc. Subject to severe resource constraints in wireless sensor networks, in this research, we address the distributed estimation of unknown parameters by studying the correlation among resource, distortion, and lifetime, which are three major concerns for WSN applications. The objective of the proposed research is to design efficient distributed estimation algorithms for resource-constrained wireless sensor networks, where the major challenge is the integrated design of local signal processing operations and strategies for inter-sensor communication and networking so as to achieve a desirable tradeoff among resource efficiency (bandwidth and energy), system performance (estimation distortion and network lifetime), and implementation simplicity. More specifically, we address the efficient distributed estimation from the following perspectives: (i) rate-distortion perspective, where the objective is to study the rate-distortion bound for the distributed estimation and to design practical and distributed algorithms suitable for wireless sensor networks to approach the performance bound by optimally allocating the bit rate for each sensor, (ii) energy-distortion perspective, where the objective is to study the energy-distortion bound for the distributed estimation and to design practical and distributed algorithms suitable for wireless sensor networks to approach the performance bound by optimally allocating the bit rate and transmission energy for each sensor, and (iii) lifetime-distortion perspective, where the objective is to maximize the network lifetime while meeting estimation distortion requirements by jointly optimizing the source coding, source throughput and multi-hop routing. Also, energy-efficient cluster-based distributed estimation is studied, where the objective is to minimize the overall energy cost by appropriately dividing the sensor field into multiple clusters with data aggregation at cluster heads.


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Innate and enhanced predator recognition in hatchery-reared chinook salmon
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We used a laboratory behaviour assay to investigate how innate predator recognition, handling stress, retention time, and number of conditioning events might affect chemically mediated anti-predator conditioning for hatchery-reared chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. Juvenile chinook salmon with no prior exposure to predatory stimuli exhibited innate fright responses to northern pikeminnow, Ptychocheilis oregonensis, odour, regardless of whether the salmon came from a population that exists in sympatry or allopatry with northern pikeminnows. Juvenile chinook salmon exhibited enhanced predator recognition following a single conditioning event with conspecific extract and northern pikeminnow odour. Handling similar to what hatchery salmon might experience prior to release did not substantially reduce the conditioned response. When we conditioned juvenile chinook salmon in hatchery rearing vessels, fish from tanks treated once exhibited a conditioned response to northern pikeminnow odour in aquaria, but only for one behaviour (feeding response), and fish treated twice did not respond. The results suggest that enhanced recognition of predator stimuli occurs quickly, but may be to some extent context-specific, which may limit conditioned fright responses after release into the natural environment.