Dear Professor Fergusson,

Your university writes at http://www.chmeds.ac.nz:80/newsevents/media_release/2006/dom_violence.htm as follows:

'Professor Fergussion says we need to understand why studies of community samples such as the CHDS usually show an absence of gender differences in domestic violence, whereas other sources dealing with severe violence, such as Women’s Refuge or police complaints, report a predominance of male perpetrators. “The best way of doing this is to study a large sample to examine the frequency of common couple violence involving mutual assaults and the frequency of more severe forms of domestic violence,” he says.'

That is completely wrong-headed!

The history of the issue of Domestic Violence is that it was relatively obscure until the Feminists latched on it as a major aspect of women's supposed oppression by men. So what we have is two more-or-less disconnected threads in the area of Domestic Violence discourse and "research:"

1. Feminists who are only interested in using it as a means of demonstrating women's supposed oppression by men;

2. Relatively objective researchers who are intrested in it primarily as a field of research, like any other.

   In this context, it is vital to understand how mickey-mouse and politicised Western universities and judicial systems are:

• Some universities openly boast about how they have "mainstreamed" Feminism", without doing anything so mildly intelligent as defining "Feminism". Universities that do not go so far in their utterances are almost as biased in practice. This means that pro-male research and teaching has to occur under the radar, and anti-male "research" and teaching is trumpeted as some sort of moral triumph. Because "Feminism" is undefined, low-brain, high-lies research flourishes -- as long as it is anti-male. As an almost perpetual student, I have routinely been able to find lecturers (in departments of Law and Psychology) who are prepared to say (and to repeat) utterances such as "Domestic Violence is a Women's Issue" or "More men than women commit domestic violence," without being able to support that statement with any evidence, when challenged.

• The judicial system is being brainwashed by anti-male lies. A Judicial Seminar on Gender Equity took place in Rotorua in May 1997, where the term "Gender Equity" was not even defined, and occurred in the title of only one paper -- and even that was just an introduction to research on judges' attitudes! Bear in mind that one of the main activities of working judges is defining terms!! The reason for this gross, mass incompetence by our judges is that "Gender Equity" is just a slogan covering a rag-bag wish-list of political issues that Feminists want to brainwash judges about. That brainwashing is now continuing in the context of the Gender Equity section of the curriculum of the Institute of Judicial Studies.

  So the best way of understanding why studies of community samples such as the CHDS usually show an absence of gender differences in domestic violence, whereas other sources dealing with severe violence, such as Women’s Refuge or police complaints, report a predominance of male perpetrators is to understand that Television New Zealand is full of lying scum, that Radio New Zealand is full of lying scum, that the Institute of Judicial Studies is full of lying scum, that the universities are full of lying scum, that the Ministry of Justice is full of lying scum, and that Police Headquarters is full of lying scum.

• Radio New Zealand and Women's Refuge

• Matriarchy Awareness Test

• Willful Defamation and Oppression of Men

• Nancy Pelosi Dislikes Violence Against Women, Because She Prefers Violence Against Men.

• Incitement of Hatred Against Men by Women's Refuge

• Totalitarian Bullying by the Retailer, "The Warehouse Group "

• "HOW CAN SHE SLAP?" Transcript: English Subtitles of Video of Several Men Assaulting One Man for Defending Himself Against a Female Aggressor on Indian Television

• Review: "The Battered Woman" by Lenore E. Walker

• Correspondence with a Female Lawyer-cum-Human-Rights-Activist

• Influence of Non-Legal Research on Legal Approaches to Ex Parte Domestic Violence Protection Orders

• Research on Domestic Violence in New Zealand

• Women Who Initiate Domestic Violence

• Member of Parliament Testifies to Mother's Abuse of Father

• Cognitive Psychology, Family Violence and how the Left has destroyed Democracy

• Overview of Fiebert's Annotated Domestic Violence Bibliography