Reply #90: yougoddabekidding [View All]

[iverglas]

"... that is one issue on which we Dems should campaign.
Do you know of a state or national group that is lobbying for this issue?"

Cripey, I can understand that you weren't even an egg in the 60s, but did you manage to miss your own lifetime too?

"Know of a state or national group that is lobbying <on> that issue"??

I dunno, are women's organizations and the women's movement really that stultified down there?

I know, I know, I live in Utopia; the large, comfortable women's (and kids') shelter a block and a half away from my home (the neighbours aren't supposed to know), inadequate though it and its multitude of sister homes are in this city and province, is a luxury a lot of you don't have. Well, this one was started years and years ago by a bunch of unpaid feminists without government money; the government now pays up as it absolutely had to be required to do -- again, inadequately as it does that, I suppose it's better than many of you are used to.

But still. Did anybody happen to notice the women's movement? Y'know, the women who have been working for decades to reduce violence against women and provide safe options for women victims of violence?

Try http://www.now.org -- put abuse in the search box. I got 460 results; domestic violence got 399; spousal assault and intimate partner assault (the terms preferred up here -- as one NOW document says, "domestic violence, the euphemism for murders and assaults by husbands and boyfriends") got a few.

I am incredulous at the self-admitted ignorance ... or deafened by the sucking sounds. Not sure which is more likely from a bot.

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