How timely, what with it being Women’s History Month and VAWA being back in the news: A mayor in New York City has been charged with assaulting his wife by shutting a door on her hand. Fumiko Bradley, wife of New York Mayor Adam Bradley, accused her husband of placing her left arm against the door frame and closing the door on her hand and says her middle finger was injured. Adam Bradley acknowledges he and his wife have had marital problems but insists he “did not in any way mistreat” her.
He can insist all he wants, but he’s up against a powerful entity. Feminists have made it impossible for husbands and fathers to get a fair shake in this country. None of us has any clue how this particular circumstance unfolded. This is a situation that could easily have been an accident during a heated argument. If a husband wanted to physically harm his wife I can think of a thousand other easier ways than “placing her arm against a door frame” in order to close the door on her hand.
If there is evidence of Bradley having hurt his wife before, that’s one thing. But does this event automatically mean abuse? Absolutely not. I hesitate to even point out that the husband says he did not mistreat his wife because I can see people chuckling through the computer — as if it’s absurd to think that a man could be innocent. In America, men are always guilty before they’re innocent.
You can thank feminists for that.
March 1st, 2010 at 6:29 pm
You know what I really like to thank feminists for?—-
Loose high school chicks when I was in high school. Yeah, you read that right.
They were the best thing that feminism wrought in my life thus far. Oh, and the “no bra” look of the 70’s. Those were great times.
Thank you, feminism. Thank you for making me glad that I am a male.
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:33 am
You are crazy. If I hurt someone, it doesn’t matter how it happened! Unless it is in self defense.
Are you nuts? You must think that the people who read your drivel have an IQ of 10.
If I have some sort of argument with my wife, and she gets hurt, well, so, I am not guilty if I say it was an accident?! No wonder OJ got off!
Oh, she got her finger chopped off in the door when I slammed it. Well, we were fighting, you see. Arguing about the cat. It was the cat’s fault! Send the cat to jail!
Ho hum. I’ve typed enough. You cannot argue with people who are nuts, or people who think that everyone else is a cretin. Did I spell that right? Cretin?
March 2nd, 2010 at 5:07 am
I do not think this goes to feminists as it does to our judicial system at large. We have some how lost the innocent until proven guilty part of our program. If a child gets upset at there parents, they call DCSF and the parents go through a thorough investigation, in some cases loosing their children to foster care while the whole thing is straightened out. There does not need to be any evidence, just the word of a child. A 16 year old female at a high school can say she was sexually molested by a teacher. The teacher is automatically put on leave pending an investigation. Even if the matter is eventually dropped, or it goes to court and the teacher is found not guilty, the damage to reputation has already happened. Not to mention the time and money spent defending themselves. If a cop gets called on domestic abuse, some one has to leave the premises. Even if it was an argument and nothing happened.
I do not have the answers to fix the problem but it is awful scary living in a society where, if someone gets mad at you, all they have to do is say the right things to the right people, and your life has changed forever. Even if you have done absolutely nothing.
Klo,
Accidents do happen. Why do you automatically assume he did it deliberately? And the finger chopped off?? Really???
March 2nd, 2010 at 5:59 am
Klo is the typical, cliched, emotional boy who thinks like a girl, hence, a liberal male in all her glory.
I love her comments.
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:16 am
Dear author,
I do not understand why you are giving the benefit of the doubt to a man who has so far already had domestic abuse charges brought up on him by a different woman many years ago. When you do something terrible like that you lose the trust of the public. You should be ashamed that you use feminism as an excuse so you don’t really need to look at the issue. His wife should not be some feminist scapegoat; she is a human being. Also, do your research. White Plains is in Westchester,NY and Bradley is not a New York City mayor. I’m glad I wrote in my vote for Glen Hockley.
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:02 pm
White Plains mayor — excuse me.
Mayor Bradley may very well be a wife beater; we have no idea based on this one particular incident.
My point is that he’s screwed even if he is innocent b/c he’ll be presumed guilty. He’s a man — and that’s how it works in feminist USA.
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:11 pm
@ Klo
Seriously? That’s it?
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:20 pm
yeah Donald, I really miss the bra burning protests.
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:23 pm
My friend Eric at Tygrr Express hit on this today.
Violence Against Women–Sounds good to me
March 2nd, 2010 I have decided to endorse violence against women.
Men, it is open season. Brutalize away.
Despite my column “Light a candle, smack a woman” that rings in every Hanukkah, I used to actually be opposed to violence against women.
http://www.tygrrrrexpress.com/2007/12/light-a-candle-smack-a-woman/
Yet an event recently had me switch sides. Naturally, it was the National Organization for Women that made me see the light.
The NOW should be renamed the 4-H club. Maybe we can call it Hillary’s Horrid Hags and Harpies.
For those who have better things to do (meaning you are not a feminist), a quick recap is necessary.
A football player named Tim Tebow appeared with his mother in a Super Bowl ad. Mrs. Tebow was over 40 when she was pregnant with Tim. She was advised to have an abortion due to complications, and she refused due to her pro-life beliefs. She was not crusading against other women. She had a choice, and she chose life.
The purpose of the commercial was to advertise the pro-life cause.
Naturally pro-choice groups went into a tizzy, expecting an “offensive” commercial. The commercial was so mild that no reasonable person (again, excludes feminists) could have possibly been offended.
Yet the NOW exists for the purpose of being offended, and setting women’s rights back. In the same way racial grievance mongers act like it is still 1863, the NOW offers gender grievances as if the 19th Amendment had never happened.
Because the ad was pro-life, the NOW needed something, anything, to attack the ad. Unable to attack it on substance (big surprise, the left avoiding substance), the president of the NOW offered a ludicrous criticism.
Tim Tebow playfully “tackles” his mother in the ad.
For those living in real life and not fantasy land (once again, feminists exempted), no actual mothers were hurt during the ad. In a separate unrelated ad, 88 year old actress Betty White was belted and slammed to the ground in a pickup game. Apparently it was make believe, and Mrs. White is walking just fine.
The NOW president threw her tiara to the ground, and in hysterical hissy (oh wow, make it the 6H Club) fit fashion, decided that the Tebow add promotes violence against women.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/National-Organization-for-Women-upset-83814942.html
Therefore, I have decided to propose new ways to commit violence against women.
As tempting as it is to advocate duct taping NOW members mouth’s shut, that would be illegal unless they voluntarily wanted it. Even so, they are most likely too ugly to play bondage with anyway.
My first act of violence against women will involve invading random flower gardens and pulling all the petals off of the flowers.
Women are obviously delicate little flowers, too soft and fragile to withstand the slightest slights. I will pull every petal off of every flower and violently throw them to the ground. Instead of yelling, “she loves me, she loves me not,” I will chant, “I hate you, I hate you more.”
Plus, I hate foliage. Most feminists are environmentalists, another reason to attack flowers.
Next, I will be sabotaging the Lifetime network. I will be jamming the feed and replacing it with the NFL network. The only commercial on tv will be the Tebow commercial.
Next, I will send religious monks into NOW headquarters. The NOW is secular, so religious people showing up would freak them out. The monks will be equipped with a chalkboard, using illustrations to teach them how to take a vow of silence.
If I have to, I will order the monks to throw the flower petals at these women. The women might get injured upon being hit by the petals. Then again, some of them may swoon because they will see it as an act of love, the only time flowers have ever been near them.
At this point some feminists will claim that it is unfair to criticize all of them for the lunatics at the NOW.
Either people stand up and condemn the cancerous elements in their own movement, or they are complicit. Silence is acquiescence.
The solution is to reach a compromise on the abortion issue. Conservative pro-lifers should keep breeding. However, if a radical feminist gets pregnant (most likely through en vitro fertilization), and a crystal ball shows that the child will grow up to join the NOW, an abortion must take place.
Women who complain that I am trivializing a group that fights real violence against women can shut up and sit down. Until they care about honor killings in Muslim nations, they are hypocritical has-beens (oh wow, the 8-H Club).
Until then, I need to go to the hardware store. It is not easy to take broken flower petals and duct tape them together, but it will be worth it.
eric