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Post by fretslider on Nov 3, 2016 7:55:37 GMT -5
Refusing to make a distinction between “human animals” and “non-human animals”, Dr Núria Querol said woman and pets were both equally victims of male aggression. In an interview with Catalan daily El Periódico, Dr Querol, who is International Coordinator of the group Viopet, said men can be guilty of “sexual aggression” towards animals as well as psychological abuse.
“Since I was four or five years old I haven’t made any distinction between human and non-human animals,” she said. “One of my mentors, Dr Frank Ascione of the University of Denver, began describing the instrumentalisation of animals in domestic violence. I decided to take action. “When I’m speaking to a patient and I suspect violence, I always ask her about her pets. She usually either responds “no” or “how did you know?” As an example, she speaks of men who exhibit “sexual aggression towards an animal in front of the woman and children”. “It’s a very perverse form of abuse,” she adds, “because the woman and children feel complicit”.
Dr Querol says her group wants to focus not only on physical violence towards pets but also psychological abuse, something which is already illegal under Catalan law. “The animals suffer fear and anxiety, pee uncontrollably and tremble in the presence of a masculine figure,” she said.
“Studies in the United States show between 71 and 86 per cent of women who are victims of violence speak of cases of violence towards animals.” As another example of masculine violence towards animals she cites the online sexual fetish of “crushing”, which involves “squashing small animals with the heel of a shoe and then putting a video of it on the internet”. Spanish news site La Gaceta says Dr Querol’s words have been welcomed by the far-left party Podemos, which is currently the country’s third largest political bloc.
The party’s feminist group posted a link to the interview on Twitter, commenting: “Chauvinist violence damages everyone”.
www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/opinion/violencia-machista-salpica-los-perros-5595205
www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/02/dogs-also-victims-gender-violence-says-doctor/
men who exhibit “sexual aggression towards an animal in front of the woman and children
Fascinating. I have yet to encounter a single case of a man exhibiting sexual aggression towards an animal in front of anyone
pee uncontrollably and tremble in the presence of a masculine figure
Perhaps the dog's bladder needs checking? I've never known a dog pee uncontrollably and tremble in the presence of a masculine figure. If a dog did that it would be a sign that the owner was a cruel bastard, yet somehow it's representative of ALL men
For the estimable Dr Querol's benefit
The statement that "Studies in the United States show between 71 and 86 per cent of women who are victims of violence speak of cases of violence towards animals." is nothing more than a poor correlation. It certainly has nothing to do with the underlying cause. There is no context.
Another attack of the old misandry.
A “bullying and violent” woman has been jailed for life for the murder of her husband two months after they got married in Las Vegas.
Sharon Edwards, 42, stabbed to death David Edwards, 51, at their home in Chorley, Lancashire. Jailing her at Manchester crown court for a minimum of 20 years, Mr Justice William Davis told the defendant she had “robbed people of a decent man”. David Edwards, a criminal defence lawyer, was the victim of “forceful bullying” at the hands of his wife during a “turbulent” year-long relationship in which he was regularly beaten and belittled, the trial heard. He died after Sharon Edwards stabbed him in the heart with a kitchen knife on 23 August last year.
Friends and colleagues had told him to leave Edwards after seeing him with black eyes, scratches and bite marks. He told one friend that she had hit him with a coffee table and an ashtray. The court heard Edwards was angry with her husband because he had been made redundant from Stanley H Cross & Co, where he had been a partner. The trial heard that the time Edwards killed her husband was the second knife attack on him in as many days.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/08/sharon-edwards-woman-bullied-murdered-husband-jailed-for-life
I wonder if they had a pet?
