Social Phenomenology: The Fastest Growing Violent Crime in America.

[RascalPuff]

Hopefully, there's room in TOE philosophical space for Social Phenomenology.

When asked what the fastest growing violent crime in the United States is, today, the majority of polled people don't know the answer to that question. Whereas, the first step toward resolving any real problem is the recognition and acknowledgement of it.

The featured question's answer is:
The physical abuse of women and children - including rape - by adult males.
(Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women & Rape. The Undeclared War Against Women, Susan Faludi, The New England Journal of Medicine, 1995)

That fact, accompanied by a large percentage of adults who are unaware of it - the most serious domestic problem in the nation - appears as an indictment of the entire educational media in the country.

Take your own survey question: randomly ask middle age folks what Rock and Roll Band first performed 'Sympathy for the Devil' - the vast majority will not only know the answer (The Rolling Stones), most polled people will be able to quote the various lyrics of that band for five minutes straight, without repeating themselves. Whereas, that same approximate percentage of polled people do not know the fastest growing violent crime in the United States.
Now, THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT.
(Draw your own conclusions on national consciousness priorities? Neurolinguistic programming. Operative conditioning. Psychomolecular restructuring - brainwashing by any other name...)

Can knowledge of the cited - number one domestic - problem do anything to provide more security for the cited victim's of the nation's most insidious domestic problem? Might more public education of and controversy on this problem help alleviate it? What are your views on this?

[stevemc2]

Well, I don't see what more could be done, the government has done much at both the state and federal levels, at least as far as I know about several states.

I certainly don't espouse violence, especially against women or children, but look at all the laws which have been passed to curb this problem.

See this link for examples:

http://stephenbaskerville.net/Book_T...to_Custody.htm

As for me, I never could see the sense of a woman staying with an abusive man, especially nowadays with the womens' shelters etc..

Lastly, I really cannot comment on any further solutions until I see your source data, but a good side topic.

stevemc2

[Spiral Path]

An excellent choice for a topic - and I am pleasantly surprised it is introduced by a male. Being a woman, I would not have dared to put it forward - a very good indication already what education (brainwashing, like the author says) can do. Also, I know from bitter personal experiences all too well what a victim feels, but that would be too long a story. I tried to list at least more general points (like perhaps much harsher sentences), but even that would take too much time that I just don't have available.

I guess I have by now resigned myself to the fact that it's still a man's world and women have therefore nothing to say anyway. But mankind has only then a chance to survive when the physically bullying males kill each other off and only the more co-operative ones raise families - in other words, when the generally aggressive male psyche evolves more toward the nurturing female psyche.

Spiral Path