Facts Are the New Hate

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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.

 

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  1. 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.

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

    Yes, to oppress women.

  4. 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.

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

  16. 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.

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