While the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings regarding VAWA , July 19, 2005, denied male victims of domestic violence their constitutional right to be heard, male victims across America continued to be denied their rights to be free from domestic violence in their intimate relationships. Senator Joe Biden the primary author of the Violence Against Women Act has been extensively contacted for years in an attempt to draw his attention to the plight of male victims of domestic violence, but in his hard heartedness, he continues to ignore their plight.

Not only does Biden add to the pain and abuse that male victims endure, because of his obdurate denial of the true dynamics of domestic violence, he also adds to the victimization of all women in America. Rather than listen to male domestic violence victims and expert testimony from knowledgeable, fair-minded scholars, Biden chooses to embrace the bigoted gender feminist propaganda that has long led to the unfairness, and violence that statistically fuels the gender feminist pork barrel and taxpayer rip off know as VAWA.

The America I live in today is uncaring, and in almost total denial of the plight of male victims of domestic violence. While that is not a new scenario, if history is any indicator, this appears to be a male role that is not likely soon to change.

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In re-reading The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, Burlingame, 1994, some interesting new comments leapt from the pages, veritably shouting out the problems that men still face a hundred and fifty years since Lincoln became the first known Presidential victim of domestic violence. Yes, Lincoln endured great abuse at the hands of his wife (as retold in this book). Then as now, the reaction of people towards male victims of domestic violence is most telling.

On page 271 we read, “Herndon (Lincoln’s law partner) recalled the many times Lincoln, after a domestic row, would take Robert (his son) and come to the office very early, sitting silently and ‘full of sadness.’ Knowing, ‘that Lincoln was driven from home, by a club - knife or tongue.’ ²⁶ Herndon would leave his partner for a while to allow him to recover his spirits.”

On page 273 we read that, “a young woman who lived for a time in the house,” recalled that Mrs. Lincoln had an “ungovernable temper.” A servant girl proceeds to give this account of a “domestic row,” “One day in 1857 Lincoln had allowed the fire in the sitting room to die down, prompting Mrs. Lincoln to leave the kitchen and ask him to put more wood on the fire. Evidently abstracted, as he often was, he failed to hear her. She asked him again, to no avail. Losing all patience, she returned yet again to the sitting room, grabbed a stick of stove-wood, and said, ‘Mr. Lincoln, I have told you now three times to mend the fire and you have pretended that you did not hear me. I’ll make you hear me this time.’ Thereupon she assaulted him with the stick of wood. The next day he came to work with a plaster covering his injured nose.” ³⁷

On page 325 the author writes, “The sad story of Lincoln’s marriage is more than simply antiquarian gossip. The long years of dealing with his tempestuous wife helped prepare Lincoln for handling the difficult people he encountered as president.” He proceeds to quote Benjamin Thomas, who said, “over the slow fires of misery that he learned to keep banked and under heavy pressure deep within him, his innate qualities of patience, tolerance, forbearance, and forgiveness were tempered and refined.” He also quotes Henry C. Whitney, who said, “but for the domestic discipline which Mr. Lincoln underwent” living with his wife, he would not have succeeded as president.” ⁴¹⁸

Clearly, then as now, male victimization need only be spun into a proper perspective to see how gloriously wonderful a thing it truly is. The author goes on to state,

“Not simply as a shrew making home life unbearable did Mary Lincoln help pave her husband’s way to the White House; she was also a useful goad to his wavering ambition,” and, “The Lincoln’s marriage was such a fountain of misery, yet from it flowed incalculable good for the nation.”

Sarcasm: Author, author, author; thank you, thank you, thank you, how wonderful that you and Senator Biden help American males to “get their minds right .” How wonderful that Senator Biden has historically provided male domestic violence victims with “get tough or die” guidance and zero funding for shelter or help.

Any fool with half a brain can see that allowing battered and abused men to endure such punishment does not always lead to the refined character of an Abraham Lincoln. No, sometimes on the road to refinement lesser men crumble and murder, or savagely batter their wives, but no problem those statistics help to keep funding going to the gender feminist domestic violence industry. We certainly wouldn’t want to fix the real problem by helping those victimized men, and then put all those gender feminist, domestic violence industry workers out of a job. …and we certainly do want to continue excusing as many violent, battering women as possible with bigoted gender feminist training for police, prosecutors and judges, and “primary aggressor” statutes. That way violent battering females are much more free to batter male victims and their children right up to the point they are murdered by those terrorized, “battered victim syndrome” individuals. Thanks to “primary aggressor” statutes, we don‘t have to send battering females to batterers programs. Instead, we just excuse their domestic violence, cheat real victims of domestic violence, and encourage the female cycle of domestic violence to escalate. No wonder so many women wind up murdered, no wonder the domestic violence murder rate for women hasn’t dropped. Desperate men and children who are trapped in such an abusive relationship often wind up in a corner with no other way out.

Yes, once a government bureaucracy is in place it is best to deny any and all objective and balanced input as was just done at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings in the interest of fueling another bloated ineffective, special interest government agency. By all means, allow only testimony from the bureaucrats running the programs, or ideologues supporting the status quo, for fear the truth might come out. Heaven forbid that better ways be learned of dealing with domestic violence, ways that include all victims based on fact, instead of gender feminist propaganda. (end sarcasm)

Last Tuesday, July 19, 2005 was truly a sad day for America if for no other reason than that the American way was subverted by a terrorizing group, known widely as the gender feminist run, domestic violence industry. As male victims continue to be denied services, and as female batterers continue to be excused and held unaccountable, violence is fueled, and the blood drips from the hands of Senator Joe Biden (primary author), and all those gender feminist ideologues who support the present form of Senator Biden’s Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).

26 Undated statements by Gourley, H-W MSS, DLC, and Weik, RL, 121-22

37 Herndon to Jesse Weik, Springfield, 23 Jan. 1886, H-W MSS, DLC. Evidently alluding to this incident, Baker reports that Mary Lincoln once threw “a log at him”; see MTL, 134

418 Whitney, Life on the Circuit, 99