Super Bowl Domestic Violence

Thursday, January 27. A news conference was called in Pasadena, California, the site of the forthcoming Super Bowl game, by a coalition of women's groups. At the news conference, reporters were informed that Super Bowl Sunday is "the biggest day of the year for violence against women." Forty per cent more women would be battered on that day. In support of the 40 per cent figure, Sheila Kuehl of the California Women's Law Center cited a study done at Virginia's Old Dominion University three years before. The presence of Linda Mitchell, a representative of a media "watchdog" group called Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), lent credibility to the claim.

At about the same time a very large media mailing was sent by Dobisky Associates, FAIR's publicists, warning at-risk women: "Don't remain at home with him during the game." The idea that sports fans are prone to attack their wives or girlfriends on that climactic day persuaded many men as well: Robert Lipsyte of the New York Times would soon be referring to the "Abuse Bowl."

In this roiling sea of media credulity was a lone island of professional integrity. Ken Ringle, a Washington Post staff writer, took the time to call around. When he asked Janet Katz -- professor of sociology and criminal justice at Old Dominion, and one of the principal authors of the study cited by Miss Kuehl -- about the connection between violence and football games, she said: "That's not what we found at all." Instead, she told him, they had found that an increase in emergency-room admissions "was not associated with the occurrence of football games in general."

The shelters and hot lines, which monitored the Sunday of the 27th Super Bowl with special care, reported no variation in the number of calls for help that day, not even in Buffalo, whose team (and fans) had suffered a crushing defeat.

But despite Ken Ringle's expose, the Super Bowl "statistic" will be with us for a while, doing its divisive work of generating fear and resentment. In the book How to Make the World a Better Place for Women in Five Minutes a Day, a comment under the heading "Did You Know?" informs readers that "Super Bowl Sunday is the most violent day of the year, with the highest reported number of domestic battering cases." How a belief in that misandrist canard can make the world a better place for women is not explained.

The pattern is blindingly familiar. A Victim class is established and a Protector class is set up to aid them via legislation and social enforcement of their moral beliefs. This is not just about the supposed violence of super bowl watchers. This is the same mania that has sought to control music’s expressive power, takes books out of public libraries, puts content filtering software in all publicly funded schools and libraries and sets the tone for legislation which strips us of many of the rights outlined in our governments charter so that their moral agendas are established as the new charter.

For example:

Reports are emerging to show that wrestling is the cause of violence in the home. How is this beginning to spread out into the popular mindset?

• The media is reporting on children killing and maiming other children with wrestling as the cause.
• “Concerned” parents groups actively seeking to censor what is show in wrestling for the sake of the children.

Compare and contrast these actions with those of the gun control activists, Tipper Gore’s PMRC and most organized religions. In all these we can see the same system of Victim Protector. Without a Victim Class the Protector Class would be powerless. So we now have sections of the population looking to gain power by finding Victim Classes and being their Protectors.

The examples above are just a few of many. No matter how many times it crops up people still stand amazed and say “How can this happen?” The question is not “How” but “Who let it happen?”

The Protector class uses the media to gain a foothold into the mass publics mindset. If an idea can be heard enough times by enough people it can become a fact. The Protector class also uses another power structure to gain control, the government. The willingness of legislators to control and be controlled by FUD is clearly evident.

In the end though this whole things rests on the shoulders of each and every one of us. The direction of our society is like Soylent Green, it's made from people.

Educated we stand Ignorant we fall