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Justice for Men & Boys 
Ever since the Duluth Model, it has been bludgeoned into us that domestic violence can flow only in one direction M->F, and this is presumption is subsequently used in the family courts to ensure asset transfer in the same direction. Baroness Levitt is attempting to ensure a situation whereby female ‘victims’ need not even give evidence in court, as this would force them to relive their ‘trauma’. [see The Guardian, March 23rd 2026]. We are simply to assume men bad, women good, and a ‘family’ is a woman and her children. Once a man has provided a woman with children, he becomes disposable, and what every woman wants is his assets, her ‘freedom’, and the opportunity to ride the carousel once more, but now with significant securities, such as the ‘family’ home and child support, provided for by a now-broken man. Did she ever love that man within the family ‘home’ or was he a mere stepping-stone to an autonomous better life? It is interesting that Baroness Levitt seems to view the formation of romantic partnerships as a step towards ‘financial independence’, and is busily changing the law to make it even easier for the M->F asset transfer from any man daft enough to cohabit with a woman during these dangerous days.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/millions-of-unmarried-couples-to-get-stronger-rights
The Duluth Model originated in 1993, courtesy of Ellen Pence and Michael Paymar, based on the ‘Patriarchal Power & Control’ theory of domestic violence. This is what Pence had to say about her own work in 1999, when she realised that it was a crock.
“He does it for power, he does it for control, he does it because he can – these were the jingles that, in our opinion, said all there was to say. But, I found that the men I interviewed did not seem to articulate a desire for power over a partner. Although I relentlessly took every opportunity to point out to the men in groups that they were so motivated and were merely in denial, the fact that few men ever articulated such a desire went unnoticed by me and many of my co-workers. Eventually, we realised that we were finding what we had predetermined to find.” [Ellen Pence & Melanie Shepherd : Coordinating Community Responses to Domestic Violence: Lessons from Duluth and Beyond (1999)]
Yet, here we are, after a further quarter century of male asset-stripping through spurious VAWG ‘concerns’ and the hot-plate is still being turned up on men, the unwitting frogs in the pan of water which is being heated to boiling point.
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