Sociologist wins 2008 Award for Political Incorrectness
And the winner is the courageous Murray Straus of the University of New Hampshire, who has been studying the politically charged area of family violence for decades. His published research shows that domestic violence is highest in lesbian relationships and that, in heterosexual relationships, women are equally as likely as men to initiate violence.
Predictably, offended feminists didn’t bother trying to prove him wrong, they attacked him personally.
[F]eminists at his university organized telephone ring accusing him of being a misogynist. He was picketed repeatedly. At the University of Massachusetts, a group of shouting and stomping women prevented him from delivering a guest lecture. (Yes, these are the same women who claim to be working for a more peaceful and tolerant society.)
In Canada, Pat Marshall, chairwoman of the Commission on Violence Against Women, made this charge to a reporter about her meeting with the professor’s wife: “I have never met a woman who looked so victimized.” But when the writer called the woman, she said she had never been struck. Marshall was later forced to apologize.
When the professor was elected president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, a group of feminists stood up and walked out as he began his presidential address. And the threats continue to this day — recently one of his PhD students was told she would never find a job if she did her doctoral research with him.
In 2007, he published a paper in the European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research discussing methods used by feminist ideologues to distort and conceal evidence on symmetry in partner violence. The paper can be downloaded here.
Dr Straus’s website has an exhaustive bibliography, research documentation, course reading lists, and links to hundreds of his publications.
That is one fascinatin’ article!