MIM Notes 189 July 1 1999

MOTHER JONES FACES UP ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: WHEN WILL AMERIKA?

by MC5

The liberal publication called "Mother Jones" has finally begun 
facing up to something MIM has been saying for the better part of 
the 1990s: wimmin in Amerika are also violent in their romantic 
relations. In fact, yet another study has come out showing that 
they are more violent than men.

"Hitting the Wall: After 20 years of domestic violence research, 
scientists can't avoid hard facts" is long overdue, particularly 
in the liberal, pseudo-feminist milieu.

There are two reasons MIM was never surprised by the facts about 
domestic violence surveys which show that wimmin when interviewed 
by survey researchers admit to doing more violence than their 
partners. First, the United $tates and other imperialist countries 
are built on genocide. Wimmin were not exempt from benefits or 
participation in the genocide against indigenous peoples. That 
culture and history has not been dealt with even by the so-called 
minorities integrated into the system.

Secondly, part of the unity of the imperialist culture is that the 
wimmin are given gender privileges over other men. In fact, 
imperialist culture wimmin receive many privileges in the realm of 
romance culture and they are trained to value that romance culture 
more highly than men. So the idea that wimmin in this decadent 
culture--and that includes the Black, First Nation, Latino and 
Asian-descended wimmin integrated into the system--should find 
romance so important is part of the reason they are willing to 
fight over it. 

In fact, as MIM has already shown in MT2/3 and as again admitted 
in recent studies, wimmin are more often violent than men if not 
with the same level of force given size and physical strength. Men 
get themselves in violence of many sorts, but the most common act 
of violence by wimmin and injury to wimmin by other people relates 
to their romantic partners.

The intertwining of violence and sex into romance could not be 
otherwise in a system glorifying genocide and war. Thoroughly 
untying this oppressive knot can only occur in a world where 
people do not desire power over other people--communism.

Note: Mother Jones May/June99, p. 37.