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In reply to the discussion: Battle of the Sexists [View all]lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)1) you say that we should adopt a quasi-legal standard of expertise before offering commentary. I think every man and every woman has the necessary expertise required to offer an opinion on a discussion board about their personal experience of sex and gender. Opinions of the experience of men in this society is not exclusively the province of college men's studies graduates.
As if.
2) you seem to acknowledge the above point in the rest of your post. I think that boiling down social policy to motherhood and fatherhood is reductionist and kind of a leap.
3) you're right about the Duluth model. It attempts to treat a cycle of violence by assuming that all IPV is nonreciprocal man-on-women violence, a situation that represents only about 15% of all IPV.