© 2005 - 2008 David R. Usher – All rights reserved
The Most Dangerous Sales Rep
Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting (RADAR) recently issued an alert of great importance pointing out how
I was shocked to see an intelligent woman like Reese Witherspoon drumming war paint as the Global Ambassador and honorary chairwoman for Avon, in conjunction with UNIFEM, to ostensibly end global violence against women.
AVON
(AVP) CEO Andrea Jung went on the record claiming that “domestic
violence a "pandemic" that affects up to one billion women worldwide.”[1]
Andrea is just throwing words around; in
another video she adds “sexual abuse” into the claim[2] –
still an unbelievable assertion. With a world population of 3.27-billion
females of all ages,[3] Jung is claiming that one in three
females alive are seriously abused by men. This is an incredulous assertion
requiring very close scrutiny because there is no science-based study on earth
to support it.
These frantic assertions (based on self-selected and occasionally non-existent surveys conducted by funded women’s advocacy centers) fall flat on their face when held up to peer-reviewed scientific research. Professor Murray A. Straus [4] -- who originally called for solid domestic violence legislation in the 1970’s -- proves feminists are wrong in his study "Dominance and Symmetry in Partner Violence by Male and Female University Students in 32 Nations."[5] -- the most exhaustive international study done to date. This study proves that international domestic violence is essentially evenly-distributed with respect to gender. Straus calls for substantially different approaches to domestic violence intervention than what is being forced on the world today by power-crazed feminists. RADAR has published the data from this study on its website.[6]
Suze Orman of Avon exposed the oedipal insanity of
Feminist reports are not remotely credible because they are often based on surveys that ask only the questions women’s advocates want to ask of women who are pre-selected to answer questions a certain way. By the same model, if you go to a Hillary Clinton rally tonight and ask 127 of her supporters what they think of John McCain, you know in advance what the results will be.
Feminists often take raw data about calls to police (which includes calls made by men about women’s violence), calls to women’s abuse hotlines, or quantities of restraining orders issued and then claim these raw numbers somehow constitute actual findings of abuse.
By the same token, you could not count the number of phone calls made to a computer manufacturer’s support hotline to broadly claim that brand of computers is junk. Restraining orders are granted almost automatically – no evidentiary hearings or juries are needed. Could you likewise believe that everyone being audited by the IRS this year is guilty of tax evasion?
The findings of feminist studies are not representative of community samples used by objective scientists -- whose studies are published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The majority of feminist studies are published in freewheeling advocacy publications or books by feminist authors that are not peer-reviewed for accuracy of the data or the methodology used.
Feminists then manufacture histrionic statements (as spouted by Avon) by performing mathematical extrapolations on these feminist “studies” – while intentionally ignoring real science -- to create the false realities that inure to the benefit of the ideological entitlement machine.
The persistent conflation of allegations with fact common
throughout feminist domestic violence literature, combined with a lack of
objective fact supporting their claims, leaves feminists propelled by nothing
more than fanatical rationalizations – which are the preeminent feature of
interviews by
The feminist rumor-mill has been astonishingly effective substituting visceral cognitive distortions for science by emotionally hyper-inflating false claims about domestic violence, magnified by repetitive recycling though a network of thousands of federally-funded advocacy organizations. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is perhaps the most notable and destructive piece of federal social legislation ever passed in American history, as will be proven later in this article.
After careful consideration, it is easy to see that
Is VAWA Effective?
There is a growing body evidence that VAWA is not only ineffective, but exacerbates the problem in some victim classes.[9] Review of historical trends in Intimate Partner Homicides (IPH) display that the enactment of VAWA resulted in the diminished decline in IPH in all victim classes, by race and relationship. These trends also provide concise evidence that the entire “women-as-victim” myth that provided the justification to current abuse policies was not just a little off target -- the facts illustrate the complete reverse was the truth. At the beginning point of the shelter movement until 1985, women murdered their intimate partners more often than males (See figure 1).[10]

Figure 1
In spite of its apparent failings, VAWA does help support a critical factor to any business strategy -- market stabilization. As with any business venture, the “women-as-victim” myth needed two things to survive and expand; market stabilization and indicia that a growing problem exists to support increased funding to organizations supposedly committed to ending the problem.
Since real statistical evidence runs against feminist agenda, feminists manufactured evidence from thin air – predominantly by surveying each other, mis-citing irrelevant literature, and then repeating the claims in circular fashion to create an appearance of truth.
With the consistent decline in IPH victims (a declining market) and no supporting facts for the “women-as-victim” model, myth supporters would have a hard time winning donors and federal entitlements. VAWA provided market stabilization by maintaining status-quo in IPH rates, thus ensuring continued funding streams for unproductive feminist-inspired programs.
Figure 1 demonstrates that IPH decreased steadily in all victim-relationship classes until the enactment of VAWA, keeping the problem alive and stabilized to generate continuing cause for federal funding of ineffective feminist enterprises.
The tragic fact of this business model is that women have to die or suffer great injury unnecessarily.
Today, we see more white female IPH than black male IPH. This is a polar reversal of these gender-race statistics over a 30-year period (See Figure 2).[11] Documentation and discussion of the IPH trends will be expanded upon in the forth-coming True Equality Network (TEN)[12] report, “Dead Girls Keep Stockholders Happy.” TEN President and CEO, Terri Lynn Tersak remarks, “Of all the trends in IPH, the lack of decline in the IPH of white female victims is the most perplexing.” She calls this, “The Murder Paradox.”
This year marks an astonishing turning point: there now more female IPH victims than male victims, even when stratified by race.
For the first time in history, supporters of VAWA will be telling the truth about the success of their approach: More women of all races are killed by their intimate partners annually than men of all races.

Figure 2
Who Is Reese
Witherspoon?
Reese Witherspoon had been struggling for some time to find (or redefine) herself in the perplexing diaspora of convoluted feminist theories. Anyone who attempts this transformation must reinvent the “Id” according to the didactic, paradoxical, and often incoherent messages that somehow all manage to fall under the word “feminism”. Women who pursue feminism often change from sensible, lovable, responsible, happy women who “do because they are” to bitter, insecure, inconsistent individuals who “do because feminism says we should.” This is the stuff cults are made of – and feminism is certainly no exception.
For Reese, this trek apparently began during filming of the
movie “Walk the Line” While playing June Carter getting out of a car, Reese asked
herself a fateful question: “who was stepping out
of the car, you know? Who is that person?”. It is notable that her
astonishing career ascent to become the highest-paid starlet in
“Who am I” is the awful question many women feel compelled to suffer daily living up to the fluid and fuzzy moving goalposts of contemporary feminism. Unfortunately, some answers are much wiser and more educated than others are. Reese got this one wrong -- perhaps because she did not do her homework studying politicized feminism, its roots, and its astonishing misunderstandings and messages about men, women, sex, and domestic violence spewed with confident, reckless abandon.
One-time A-list stars such as Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Glenn Close, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, Kim Basinger, and Goldie Hawn made the wrong choice years ago and paid for it with sagging box office revenues, declining careers, and ambivalence or flat-out rejection by former admirers.
These actresses share one common bond: they aligned with
radical feminist elements years ago. In most cases, the messes they made of
their personal lives came to reflect the quixotic roles they assumed in their
acting careers. Careers of these and other femi-nuts actresses deflated with
sexist movies such as First
Wives Club (I am quoted in this 1996 Time Magazine article). First Wives
Club received much
negative attention for being “the greatest documentary ever filmed about
sexism in
Jane Fonda – the knarly “in your face” feminist of the 1960’s, watched her film career slough off in the early 1970’s and grind to a halt in 1990. She is now relegated to talk show appearances – spouting the “C” word to get her minute of fame -- and playing herself occasionally in television bit-parts. Kim Basinger ended up a personal tragedy in an ugly divorce perhaps outclassed perhaps only by Heather Mills.
There is a long list of anti-male movies, the majority of which did poorly at the box office. Take for example the Banger Sisters, which grossed only $30.2 million against the $242-million gross of “Bruce Almighty” – an entirely silly but male-positive comedy. Those who wish to dig deeper can compare film box office revenues using the New York Times “Ebb and Flow of Movies” interactive graphic.
While some of the early feminist movies were profitable because of the buzz they created, in the end viewers simply walked away from films featuring these poisoned actresses. I am just one of many viewers who bother to watch their movies because I know in advance that the repulsive feminist message will overwhelm the trite story line.
Witherspoon is now headed down the same sunset path. Her recent film, “Penelope,” in which Reese carefully constructed what she thought would be a reasonable feminist archetype of modern woman, was a miserable box-office flop taking in just $3.8 million on the first weekend. Variety kindly reported her role to be “inconsequential,” while Rolling Stone simply gave it 1.5 stars. The Fairfax Digital called it like it is, a “surprisingly strong feminist agenda” Consuela Francis, of the Charleston City Paper, accidentally revealed the film’s core problem (and with feminism itself) in her review: many of the traps set for contemporary young women are set by feminists themselves, who will do anything to prevent young girls from growing up to be real women capable of loving real men and having stable, close relationships with them. Audiences want their hearts warmed, thrilled, or captivated. Any movie that behaves otherwise is destined for the Z-list.
The Business End of
the “Domestic Violence” Industry
The most active organization reflecting the facet of
feminism
Readers must come to fully understand how the industrial-feminist-complex
works. The works of rabid male-hating lesbian radicals such as Valerie Solanas
and Robin Morgan -- who are worshipped
by radical feminist leaders -- end up transformed into broad victim-terminology
demanding the federal funding and unconstitutional legal protections that
lesbian feminists need to destroy marriage – in the name of “diversity”. In this case, V-Day activists are the
guerillas, and
Salma Hayek is also a lead attraction for V-Day’s ballyhooed 10th anniversary celebration.[14] V-Day goes well beyond VAWA: it is now calling for passage of the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA).[15]
Feminists are gearing up to bulldoze Congress into enacting the International Violence Against Women Act -- a carbon-copy export of VAWA. I-VAWA would send billions in direct federal entitlements to a fully autonomous radical feminist U.N. division that cannot be audited by anybody. The purpose of this U.N. division (in a nutshell) is the same as VAWA-funded organizations in the United States have been serving: to misuse federal funds financing abortion, destroying the institution of heterosexual marriage, establishing prostitution and Kinsey’s sexual attitudes as a women’s right and a man’s liability, and establishment of a world welfare-state built on intentional illegitimacy funded by forced child support labor culminating in same-sex “marriage” of doubly-entitled mothers.
With Salma Hayek in a leading role at AVON, in Congress, and
at V-Day, it is a foregone conclusion that
Salma Hayek is perhaps the last oracle of science on earth. In an NBC interview, Hayek improperly claimed, “all violence begins in the home.”[17] This is a calculated lie: the vast majority of violence is male-on-male and never gets anywhere near the home.
As part of this interview, long-disproven lies about domestic violence, such as the false claim that “every nine seconds a woman is abused or beaten,” were recanted from dicta given to the interviewer. This number of seconds changes frequently, with 9, 14, and 18 seconds bandied about like Al Gore hurls false global warming proclamations. The truth about this hyper-inflated statistic is revealed in Murray Straus’s report, “Physical Assaults By Wives, A Major Social Problem.”[18] Straus reveals that the claim is based on estimates of abuse -- which in the feminist lexicon includes all minor spousal disagreements. When adjusted for injury rates – actual domestic violence -- the rate of abuse drops to one act of abuse every 167.7 seconds. This estimate does not include domestic violence against men – who are the victims of spousal physical violence half the time too.
Every major study on domestic violence informs us that women initiate serious physical violence in at least half of all spousal altercations.[19] When we fail to prevent violence by women, we encourage violence by women to the detriment of the losers of altercations that could have easily been prevented. The best way to prevent violence against women is to interdict aggressively regardless of the sex of the initiator.
It is now common knowledge that women are responsible for
slightly more than half of all serious domestic violence, and that feminist
responses are dangerously wrong. Yet
In December 2007, Avon gave a $30,000
grant[20]
to “Rape And Violence End Now” (RAVEN), a
The phony pandemic of college rape[21] began with a survey of college women who were asked a loaded question – did you sex with a person after he “got you drunk or high.” Feminists magically transmogrified this into a lie, still heard today on feminist websites everywhere; that one in four college women are subjected to rape or attempted rape while in college.
These are the attitudes that wrought the malformed legal machinery driving the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case – the most infamous abuse of law since the McMartin false child abuse trial. There are thousands of Duke cases that occur every year we never hear about, such as the college professor imprisoned for nine agonizing days and suspended from his job on false rape charges – the accuser sentenced to a mere 8 days behind bars. The Innocence Project has now freed 215 men falsely convicted of rape, men who collectively served 2,580 years in prison to satisfy feminist legal approaches.
This is the face of radical feminism no intelligent person can endorse. Hurting women does not help them. Helping women hurt themselves hurts children. In the end, it hurts our entire nation.
To repetitively spout such volumes of claims about men, none of which have any statistical basis in science, and to intentionally brush aside science while pretending to serve some higher purpose, is worse than hate …. it is “calculated hate” that no humane individual can accept.
Certainly, domestic violence is a legitimate issue. We all agree strongly on this. Let us walk away from feminism, and begin to find solid ground on which to base public policy.
The Facts About
Domestic Violence
RADAR recently issued an important alert identifying key aspects of VAWA indicating that VAWA must be reformed:
VAWA has had no positive impact on domestic violence in America, and places women at greater risk of subsequent violence.[23]
VAWA programs are rife with fraud, corruption, and misuse of federal funds.[24]
VAWA may be increasing partner abuse.[25]
VAWA programs make men fear women and marriage.[26]
U.N. and UNIFEM attempts to promote American-style thinking have been denounced by women around the world.[27] In 2006, the U.N. Third Committee unanimously rejected the Secretary General’s Report on Domestic Violence after RADAR discovered that the report’s primary basis, a UNFPA “study”, was a grossly-inaccurate advocacy survey conducted by a marketing research firm that was never published in any peer-reviewed journal.[28] [29] [30]
Despite the fact that women are just as likely as men to
commit serious acts of spousal violence,[31]
85% of the 2-3 million ex-parte restraining orders issued annually are issued
against men, and half of all restraining orders are issued without any
allegation of physical abuse. [32]
Reliable research shows about half of all rape allegations are false. A false rape allegation is likely to destroy the family of other women and place children of the alleged perpetrator in poverty.[33]
In India, VAWA-like laws transmitted via the U.N. are under attack by Indian women who have “been disempowered and whose basic human rights are being violated by the police and judiciary in the name of women’s rights, protection and empowerment.”[34]
In its report “U.N. Report on Violence
Against Women,”[35]
RADAR compiled the body of evidence the U.N. Third Committee evaluated in
rendering its unanimous
rejection[36]
of the U.N. Secretary-General’s
Report on Domestic Violence.[37] Despite
rejection of this report, UNIFEM, the U.N. Division for the Advancement of
Women,
Scientific Research
by True Equality Network
TEN has done more qualitative and quantitative research into
actual operations of women’s shelter organizations than any other organization
in
The just-released report, “Congressional Guidelines for Abusing Women”[38] reveals a substantial list of frauds and abuses commonly committed by organizations operating with VAWA funds under the guise of protecting women and children:
The overwhelming body of living evidence collected by True
Equality proves that
To demonstrate why VAWA is so dysfunctional by speaking to the paramount directional policy change need to effect. Drugs or alcohol are associated with 86% of serious domestic violence,[39] restraining order violations, and recidivism.[40] Treatment for this preventable and treatable disorder should be mandatory where abuse of mood-altering substances (including pharmaceuticals) is a habitual or chronic-phase factor.
Reputable chemical dependency programs such as Hazelden[41]
(the basis of the well-known
This is just one of the wise changes we must make to our
federal domestic violence laws.
The IRS should pay close attention to the activities of Avon
and the supposedly independent
Today, we sit on the precipice of possible global control of
law and social policy by Internationalized radical feminists – with
I am confident that once Reese realizes what
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David R. Usher is Senior Policy Analyst for the True Equality Network, and President of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, Missouri Coalition
References:
[1] Forbes.com: http://www.forbes.com/leadership/2008/03/04/celebrities-philanthropy-charity-lead-citizen-cx_tw_0304causes.html
[3] U.S. Department of Census; http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpopinfo.html
[4] Murray A. Straus, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director Family Research Laboratory University of New Hampshire, http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/
[5]
"Dominance and Symmetry in Partner Violence by Male and Female University
Students in 32 Nations. Murray Straus, Ph.D. University of New
Hampshire,
[6] Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting, “Results From International Dating Violence Study, http://mediaradar.org/international_dating_violence_study_results.php
[8] Usher, David R. “Funding Radical Feminism”, http://www.newswithviews.com/Usher/david24.htm
[9] Dugan L, et. al.,
Exposure Reduction or Backlash? The Effects of Domestic Violence Resources on
Intimate Partner Homicide, Executive Summary, National Institute of Justice,
[10] United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Intimate Homicide Rates per 100,000 Population by Gender 1976 - 2005, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/intgreltab.htm
[11] Ibid, en 10.
[12] http://true-equality.org/
[15] Ibid, en 13.
[16] Corry CE, Farrell W, Tersak TL, VAWA: A four-letter word that means tyranny, Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 11-17, 2005, http://www.true-equality.org/articles/VAWA_Op_Ed.pdf
[17] MSNBC.com; http://video.aol.com/video-detail/salma-hayek-and-avon-helping-to-reduce-domestic-violence/2642844693
[18] “Physical Assualts By Wives, A Major Social Problem”, Dr. Murray Straus, University of New Hampshire, Current Controversies on Family Violence, Sage Publications, 1993; http://www.dadsnow.org/studies/strauss.pdf
[19] “References Examining
Assaults by Women On Their Spouses or Male Partners”, Martin S. Feibert,
Department of Psychology,
[20] St. Louis Business
Journal,
[21] MacDonald, Heather; “The Campus Rape Myth”, City Journal; http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_1_campus_rape.html
[22] The American Bar Association; http://www.abanet.org/domviol/law_fellowship.html
[23] VAWA is Not
Helping Women, Report Shows, RADAR, February 5 2007; http://mediaradar.org/alert20070205.php
[24] Unaccountable
DV Programs Misuse Tax Dollars; Place Victims at Risk, RADAR, March 10, 2008; http://mediaradar.org/alert20080310.php
[25] RADAR Report
Shows DV Programs May Worsen Partner Abuse, RADAR, October 9, 2007; http://mediaradar.org/alert20071009.php
[26] VAWA, I-VAWA,
and CEDAW: Why Men Now Fear Marriage, RADAR, March 5, 2007; http://mediaradar.org/alert20070305.php
[27] Women Denounce
the UN Violence Study, RADAR, Nov 9, 2006; http://mediaradar.org/alert20061109.php
[28] UN Violence
Report: Three Strikes and You're OUT!, RADAR, Oct. 30, 2006; http://mediaradar.org/alert20061030.php
[29] Feminist
Takeover of the U.N. is an Issue of National Security, David R. Usher, Nov. 23,
2006; http://www.newswithviews.com/Usher/david38.htm
[30] U.N. Rejects Report
on Violence Against Women, David R. Usher, Nov. 30, 2006; http://www.newswithviews.com/Usher/david39.htm
[31] Research,
RADAR, http://mediaradar.org/research.php#waj
[32] Almost
Anything Now Counts as Domestic “Violence,” Report Finds, RADAR, Sept. 6, 2006.
http://mediaradar.org/alert20060906.php
[33] Beyond Duke:
About Half Of All Rape Allegations Are False, RADAR, Apr. 27, 2007; http://mediaradar.org/alert20070423.php
[34] Women Against Misuse of Women-Protection Laws, Uma Challa, March 5, 2008; http://uchalla.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/women-against-misuse-of-women-protection-laws-2
[35] Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting, http://mediaradar.org/un_violence_report.php
[36] Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting, ”Intensive Global Efforts Bring Two Victories In One Week; http://mediaradar.org/alert20061204.php
[37] U.N. Secretary General’s Report on Violence Against Women, http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw
[38]
Tersak, Terri Lynn, “Congressional Guidelines for Abusing Women”, True Equality
Network,
[39]
Alcohol and
[40]
Massachusetts Trial Court Office Of The Commissioner Of Probation, Restraining
Order Violators, Corrective Programming And Recidivism,
[41] Hazelden; www.hazelden.org
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