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Facts Are the New Hate

Posted on | June 10, 2014 | 66 Comments

The #YesAllWomen hashtag has been going crazy all day because of a Washington Post column by Brad Wilcox and Robin Wilson which demonstrates — as a matter of social science — what all social scientists already know: Marriage is highly correlated with good outcomes for women and children. This isn’t really controversial, if you have paid attention to the research, but feminists don’t give a damn about research if the facts contradict their theories, and feminist theory has been implacably hostile to marriage for more than 40 years. Here are two charts from the Wilcox/Wilson article:

As you can see, (a) rates of domestic violence against women are highest for single mothers and (b) child abuse rates are lowest for children living with married biological parents.

The very worst environment for children, in terms of abuse, is to live with an unmarried parent and that parent’s live-in boyfriend or girlfriend. You’ll also notice, interestingly, that rates of domestic abuse are slightly higher for married women who have children, as opposed to childless married women; however, the rates are still far lower for married moms than for single mothers.

Of course, correlation is not causation, and all such social-science data require analysis and contextualization. However, the data clearly contradict the feminist dogma which blames “patriarchy” — i.e., the social norms of the traditional family — for abuse. But the influence of feminism in academia and in the media is now so powerful that when social scientists try to call attention to research that shows the traditional family in a favorable light, the denunciations are loud, emotional and deliberately vituperative:

WaPo Editorial Page Goes Neanderthal
For Second Time In A Week

Caitlin McNeal, Talking Points Memo

Being pro-marriage is now “Neanderthal,” no matter how much research data you produce in support of your argument.

Feminist theory is utterly impervious to evidence. If there is anything feminists hate more than they hate men, it’s facts and logic.

 

Comments

66 Responses to “Facts Are the New Hate”

  1. BobBelvedere
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:09 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Facts Are the New Hate http://t.co/P0NXNi0qmm #TCOT

  2. Wildharv
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:12 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Facts Are the New Hate http://t.co/P0NXNi0qmm #TCOT

  3. rsmccain
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:13 pm

    “If there is anything feminists hate more than they hate men, it’s facts and logic.” http://t.co/5WOOcAIdyz #tcot cc @WilcoxNMP @AnnCoulter

  4. g56yu
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:14 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “If there is anything feminists hate more than they hate men, it’s facts and logic.” http://t.co/5WOOcAIdyz #tcot cc @WilcoxN…

  5. lawebber215
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:14 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “If there is anything feminists hate more than they hate men, it’s facts and logic.” http://t.co/5WOOcAIdyz #tcot cc @WilcoxN…

  6. AviWoolf
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:15 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “If there is anything feminists hate more than they hate men, it’s facts and logic.” http://t.co/5WOOcAIdyz #tcot cc @WilcoxN…

  7. LiesDestroy
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:15 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “If there is anything feminists hate more than they hate men, it’s facts and logic.” http://t.co/5WOOcAIdyz #tcot cc @WilcoxN…

  8. TheUsaian
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:15 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “If there is anything feminists hate more than they hate men, it’s facts and logic.” http://t.co/5WOOcAIdyz #tcot cc @WilcoxN…

  9. RKHilbertSpace
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:15 pm

    “If there is anything feminists hate more than they hate men, it’s facts and logic.” http://t.co/TYCHhbnjCv “Facts are the new hate”

  10. loritootle
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:19 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “If there is anything feminists hate more than they hate men, it’s facts and logic.” http://t.co/5WOOcAIdyz #tcot cc @WilcoxN…

  11. RS
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:28 pm

    I mentioned this article in the prior thread. I figured you’d get to it eventually.

    Not to bring up the “Men’s Rights” movement again, (N.B. I’ve been happily married for over 25 years), but this is the sort of thing which is buried by Feminists. Fathers do not abuse their children (.7/1000) and don’t abuse their wives either. In my observational experience, you generally have a women who’s bored who wishes to start a new life. She is concerned with her own “self-fulfillment” and picks a new beau who ostensibly meets her needs. Unfortunately, her children fade into a distant last on her priority list, and thus, does new paramour wind up treating both her and the kids badly. Meanwhile, natural father, who probably didn’t want the divorce, is powerless to protect his kids, leaving them defenseless and ultimately at the mercy of whatever the State decides is in their best interests.

    I’ve seen it too many times. I could tell stories going on for hours. These people are collateral damage in the pursuit of a society where family loyalty and succor does not exist. The Men’s Rights movement may be myopic, but the issues it raises are ones which portend the future.

  12. concern00
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:28 pm

    “…facts and logic.”

    Didn’t the patriarchy invent these concepts?

  13. rsmccain
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:28 pm

    RT @Citzcom: Facts Are the New Hate: The #YesAllWomen hashtag has been going crazy all day because of a Washington Post col… http://t.co/…

  14. Fools2234
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:28 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “If there is anything feminists hate more than they hate men, it’s facts and logic.” http://t.co/5WOOcAIdyz #tcot cc @WilcoxN…

  15. robertstacymccain
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:31 pm

    “…facts and logic.”
    Didn’t the patriarchy invent these concepts?

    Yes, to oppress women.

  16. AdamKissel
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:31 pm

    RT @Citzcom: Facts Are the New Hate: The #YesAllWomen hashtag has been going crazy all day because of a Washington Post col… http://t.co/…

  17. lawebber215
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:31 pm

    RT @Citzcom: Facts Are the New Hate: The #YesAllWomen hashtag has been going crazy all day because of a Washington Post col… http://t.co/…

  18. BobBelvedere
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:31 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “If there is anything feminists hate more than they hate men, it’s facts and logic.” http://t.co/mP7npgPcoJ #tcot

  19. nofixedabode
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:33 pm

    RT @Citzcom: Facts Are the New Hate: The #YesAllWomen hashtag has been going crazy all day because of a Washington Post col… http://t.co/…

  20. AmPowerBlog
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:39 pm

    .@JessicaValenti Research shows married women face phenomenally reduced likelihood of violence: http://t.co/pLMSlMJoxD cc. @RSMcCain #RadFem

  21. cheshirecat0025
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:40 pm

    RT @AmPowerBlog: .@JessicaValenti Research shows married women face phenomenally reduced likelihood of violence: http://t.co/pLMSlMJoxD cc.…

  22. Realist0311
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:43 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “If there is anything feminists hate more than they hate men, it’s facts and logic.” http://t.co/5WOOcAIdyz #tcot cc @WilcoxN…

  23. ophidianpilot
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:44 pm

    Facts Are the New Hate
    #tcot #pjnet http://t.co/Q9Q0RMoMpu via @rsmccain

  24. CFLancop
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:45 pm

    RT @AmPowerBlog: .@JessicaValenti Research shows married women face phenomenally reduced likelihood of violence: http://t.co/pLMSlMJoxD cc.…

  25. dralice1978
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:47 pm

    RT @AmPowerBlog: .@JessicaValenti Research shows married women face phenomenally reduced likelihood of violence: http://t.co/pLMSlMJoxD cc.…

  26. AmPowerBlog
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:47 pm

    RT @Citzcom: Facts Are the New Hate: The #YesAllWomen hashtag has been going crazy all day because of a Washington Post col… http://t.co/…

  27. joethefatman
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:55 pm

    It used to be a known known that marriage domesticates men. I guess that domestication has benefits for women as well. Who knew?

    Oh, right. Everyone over the age of 20. Whether they want to believe it or not.

  28. rsmccain
    June 10th, 2014 @ 8:58 pm

    RT @ophidianpilot: Facts Are the New Hate
    #tcot #pjnet http://t.co/Q9Q0RMoMpu via @rsmccain

  29. RS
    June 10th, 2014 @ 9:01 pm

    And everyone who never had to endure a “Womyn’s Studies” course.

  30. nofixedabode
    June 10th, 2014 @ 9:04 pm

    RT @ophidianpilot: Facts Are the New Hate
    #tcot #pjnet http://t.co/Q9Q0RMoMpu via @rsmccain

  31. RightofGenghis
    June 10th, 2014 @ 9:06 pm

    RT @ophidianpilot: Facts Are the New Hate
    #tcot #pjnet http://t.co/Q9Q0RMoMpu via @rsmccain

  32. Zohydro
    June 10th, 2014 @ 9:07 pm

    OT: A rare Double Flaming Skull at AoSHQ!

  33. itsEric
    June 10th, 2014 @ 9:10 pm

    RT @ophidianpilot: Facts Are the New Hate
    #tcot #pjnet http://t.co/Q9Q0RMoMpu via @rsmccain

  34. mjwadeesq
    June 10th, 2014 @ 9:11 pm

    RT @ophidianpilot: Facts Are the New Hate
    #tcot #pjnet http://t.co/Q9Q0RMoMpu via @rsmccain

  35. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 10th, 2014 @ 9:14 pm
  36. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 10th, 2014 @ 9:15 pm

    Cantor going down!

  37. Zohydro
    June 10th, 2014 @ 9:49 pm

    In a previous Disqus incarnation, I briefly used the Flaming Skull as my avatar not knowing it was a thing at Ace of Spades…

  38. thatMrGguy
    June 10th, 2014 @ 10:00 pm

    Facts Are the New Hate http://t.co/6xZRUGmD3C

  39. joethefatman
    June 10th, 2014 @ 10:08 pm

    “Cantor going down!”

    Well fat lot of good that did him.

  40. cmdr358
    June 10th, 2014 @ 10:31 pm

    What other purpose could they possibly serve?

  41. WaltPimbley
    June 10th, 2014 @ 10:47 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Facts Are the New Hate http://t.co/P0NXNi0qmm #TCOT

  42. WaltPimbley
    June 10th, 2014 @ 10:51 pm

    @smitty_one_each Married women also more likely to be happy and vote GOP. The opiate of the female! Must stamp out… http://t.co/3c6IE6Wztx

  43. Facts be damned | Because, Science!
    June 10th, 2014 @ 11:00 pm

    […] they get in the way of a preferred narrative.  These results should not be controversial, it is, after all, common sense.  This could […]

  44. Jason Lee
    June 10th, 2014 @ 11:58 pm

    One day marriage is a HUMAN RIGHT™, the next day it’s a Neanderthal proposition.

  45. Adjoran
    June 11th, 2014 @ 12:15 am

    Well, actually, without facts and logic there wouldn’t even BE Birkenstocks, and where would Feminism be without those?

  46. Adjoran
    June 11th, 2014 @ 12:15 am

    Thank goodness!

    For a second, I thought it was going to be a Belle Knox flick.

  47. Adjoran
    June 11th, 2014 @ 12:17 am

    The best thing is the feminists don’t even seem to understand they are being roasted on this show. The rest of Portland either – and all the celebrities cannot WAIT to guest star.

    Well, if they were bright, they wouldn’t be liberals.

  48. Charles
    June 11th, 2014 @ 12:17 am

    Marriage is a matriarchy to which men apply and women decide which men will be accepted.

  49. Adjoran
    June 11th, 2014 @ 12:18 am

    Apparently “gay marriage” is the ONLY acceptable kind.

  50. Kirby McCain
    June 11th, 2014 @ 12:28 am

    Children in single mom homes are at greater risk of sexual abuse because predators target this situation more than others. Here’s a story in which a mother allows a registered offender to move in with her and her fifteen year old daughter. http://www.sanduskyregister.com/article/sandusky-police/5630896