Sunday, February 04, 2007

Lest We Forget: The Super Bowl Sunday Hoax



Is there anything else that illustrates so succinctly the evil depths which feminism will sink to in order to demonize men and further their anti-social agenda of relationship destruction between men and women?

It is important to understand why the femhags concocted this whole sham in order to realize the full depths of feminist evil. Carey Roberts wrote about the feminist motivation for the Super Bowl Sunday Hoax back in April '05 with his article "Un-constitutional VAWA Law Helped by a Propaganda Ploy" where we can read the following:

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/roberts/050412

To understand the DV urban legend, we need to go back to 1991, when senator Joe Biden of Delaware introduced VAWA for the first time. [www.vawnet.org/SexualViolence/PublicPolicy/VAWA-SVPubPol.pdf] But many in Congress were opposed to Biden's bill because it ignored key provisions of the United States Constitution.

First, the proposed law flaunted the intent of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteen Amendment. Knowing that men are equally likely to be victims of domestic violence, how could anyone in good conscience propose a law that would confer greater protections and services, but only for women?

Second, Biden's proposed bill violated the principle of federalism enshrined in the Tenth Amendment, and thus infringed on state sovereignty.

Not surprisingly, Biden's bill was soon relegated to the legislative deep-freeze. That didn't please the rad-fems. So someone came up with the idea of a publicity stunt.

In January 1993, a daring group of women called a press conference in Pasadena, California. Sheila Kuhn [SIC] of the California Women's Law Center made the statement that would provide the boost the feminists were desperately looking for: Super Bowl Sunday was the "biggest day of the year for violence against women."

That stunning claim quickly appeared on Good Morning America, in the Boston Globe, and elsewhere. The Oakland Tribune would report the Super Bowl causes men to "explode like mad linemen, leaving girlfriends, wives, and children beaten."

How's that for dispassionate news reporting?

Some remained unconvinced, however, including reporter Ken Ringle of the Washington Post. In his article "Debunking the 'Day of Dread' for Women," Ringle showed the feminist claim was a preposterous fraud. [www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/superbowl.asp] But Ringle's expose' came too late — the genie was out of the bottle.

The Super Bowl Hoax, as it was later dubbed, no doubt will become a classic in the propaganda textbooks. And it clearly did succeed in triggering a surge of letters and phone calls to Congress. The following year the Violence Against Women Act was signed into law by President Clinton.

That is outrageous! The Super Bowl Sunday Hoax was purposefully foisted upon an unsuspecting public by feminists in order to pass laws which took away the constitutional rights of men! Now, I don't know what kind of laws the rest of the Western world are reading but the last that I heard, if someone knowingly used falseties to promote propaganda with the intent of causing discrimination against a specific group, that is the very definition of a Hate Crime - a crime against Humanity!

For you manginas out there who are saying, "Well, maybe the feminist sisters just made an honest mistake," let's read further and see exactly how purposefully and with evil intent the femhags set about launching this lie:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/superbowl.asp

Christina Hoff Sommers charted a timeline of how the apocryphal statistic about domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday was foisted upon the public over the course of a few days leading up to the Super Bowl in January 1993:

Thursday, January 28
  • 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 significant anecdotal evidence suggested that Super Bowl Sunday is "the biggest day of the year for violence against women." Prior to the conference, there had been reports of increases as high as 40 percenst in calls for help from victims that day. At the conference, Sheila Kuehl of the California Women's Law Center cited a study done at Virginia's Old Dominion University three years before, saying that it found police reports of beatings and hospital admissions in northern Virginia rose 40 percent after games won by the Redskins during the 1988-89 season. The presence of Linda Mitchell at the conference, a representative of a media "watchdog" group called Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), lent credibility to the cause.
  • At about this time a very large media mailing was sent by Dobisky Associates, warning at-risk women, "Don't remain at home with him during the game." The idea that sports fans are prone to attack 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."

Friday, January 29

  • Lenore Walker, a Denver psychologist and author of "The Battered Woman", appeared on "Good Morning America" claiming to have compiled a ten-year record showing a sharp increase in violent incidents against women on Super Bowl Sundays. Here, again, a representative from FAIR, Laura Flanders, was present to lend credibility to the cause.

Saturday, January 30

  • A story in the Boston Globe written by Linda Gorov reported that women's shelters and hotlines are "flooded with more calls from victims [on Super Bowl Sunday] than on any other day of the year." Gorov cited "one study of women's shelters out West" that "showed a 40 percent climb in calls, a pattern advocates said is repeated nationwide, including in Massachusetts."

Writers and pundits were quick to offer reasons why this "fact" was so obviously true. After all, everyone knows that men are mostly loutish brutes, and football is the epitome of mindless, aggressive, violent, testosterone-driven macho posturing. Certainly during the culmination of the football season, the final, spectacular, massively-hyped "super" game, more men than ever are going to express their excitement or disappointment by smacking their wives or girlfriends around. So much attention did the "Super Bowl abuse" stories garner that NBC aired a public service announcement before the game to remind men that domestic violence is a crime.

Ken Ringle, a reporter for the Washington Post, was one of the few journalists to bother to check the sources behind the stories. When he contacted Janet Katz, a professor of sociology and criminal justice at Old Dominion University and one of the authors of the study cited during the January 28 news conference, he found:

  • Janet Katz, professor of sociology and criminal justice at Old Dominion and one of the authors of that study, said "that's not what we found at all."
  • One of the most notable findings, she said, was that an increase of emergency room admissions "was not associated with the occurence of football games in general, nor with watching a team lose." When they looked at win days alone, however, they found that the number of women admitted for gunshot wounds, stabbings, assaults, falls, lacerations and wounds from being hit by objects was slightly higher than average. But certainly not 40 percent.
  • "These are interesting but very tentative findings, suggesting what violence there is from males after football may spring not from a feeling of defensive insecurity, which you'd associate with a loss, but from a sense of empowerment following a win. We found that significant. But it certainly doesn't support what those women are saying in Pasadena," said Katz.

Likewise, Ringle checked the claim made by Dobisky Associates (the organization that had mailed warnings to women advising them not to stay at home with their husbands on Super Bowl Sunday) that "Super Bowl Sunday is the one day in the year when hot lines, shelters, and other agencies that work with battered women get the most reports and complaints of domestic violence." Dobisky's source for this quote was Charles Patrick Ewing, a professor at the University of Buffalo, but Professor Ewing told Ringle he'd never said it:

  • "I don't think anybody has any systematic data on any of this," said Charles Patrick Ewing, a forensic psychologist and author of "Battered Women Who Kill."
  • Yet Ewing is quoted in the release from Dobisky Associates declaring "Super Bowl Sunday is the one day in the year when hotlines, shelters and other agencies that work with battered women get the most reports and complaints of domestic violence."
  • "I never said that," Ewing said. "I don't know that to be true."
  • Told of Ewing's response, Frank Dobisky acknowledged that the quote should have read "one of the days of the year." That could mean one of many days in the year.

In addition, Ringle learned that Linda Gorov, the Boston Globe reporter who'd written that women's shelters and hotlines are "flooded with more calls from victims [on Super Bowl Sunday] than on any other day of the year" hadn't even seen the study she'd cited in support of that statement but had merely been told about it by Linda Mitchell, the FAIR representative who was present at the January 28 news conference that had kicked off the whole issue.

Did any evidence back up the assertion that Super Bowl Sunday was the leading day for domestic violence? When the Washington Post's Ringle attempted to follow the chain by contacting Linda Mitchell of FAIR, Mitchell said her source had been Lenore Walker, the Denver psychologist who'd appeared on "Good Morning America" the day after the conference. Ms. Walker's office referred Ringle to Michael Lindsey, another Denver psychologist who was also an authority on battered women. Mr. Lindsey told Ringle that "I haven't been any more successful than you in tracking down any of this" and asked, "You think maybe we have one of these myth things here?"

The upshot? It turned out that Super Bowl Sunday was not a significantly different day for those who monitor domestic abuse hotlines and staff battered women's shelters:

  • Those who work with victims of domestic violence in Connecticut reported no increase in cases Monday, after a barrage of publicity on the potential link between Super Bowl gatherings and family violence.
  • An increase in domestic violence predicted for Super Bowl Sunday did not happen in Columbus, authorities said yesterday, and others nationwide said women's rights activists were spreading the wrong message.
  • Despite some pre-game hype about the "day of dread" for some women, Columbus-area domestic violence counselors said that Sunday, although certainly violent for some women, was relatively routine.

The ensuing weeks and months saw a fair amount of backpedalling by those who had propagated the Super Bowl Sunday violence myth, but - as usual - the retractions and corrections received far less attention than the sensational-but-false stories everyone wanted to believe, and the bogus Super Bowl statistic remains a widely-cited and believed piece of mis-information. As Sommers concluded, "How a belief in that misandrist canard can make the world a better place for women is not explained."

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Gentlemen, do you know what we have witnessed with the succesful feminist implementation of the Super Bowl Hoax into the mindset of the public and it's use in bending the US government to revoke certain Constitutional rights of men?

We have witnessed a HATE CRIME!

In a decade which saw the President of the United States come under tremendous media fire for smoking a joint and "not inhaling", and which saw a near Presidential impeachment for lying about a blowjob..., the following people got away scot-free after openly perpetrating a hate-crime which resulted in a draconian stripping of Constitutional rights (VAWA) against 50% of the population:

SHEILA KUEHL (now a California State Senator - also known for obstructing California paternity law reform - and must have since sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States - a feminist defending the constitution, lol, now there's an oxymoron.)

LINDA MITCHELL, LAURA FLANDERS & "FAIRNESS AND ACCURACY IN REPORTING" (FAIR)

FRANK DOBISKY & DOBISKY ASSOCIATES

LENORE WALKER (Author of "The Battered Woman")

"GOOD MORNING AMERICA"

LINDA GOROV & THE BOSTON GLOBE

THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE

ROBERT LIPSYTE & THE NEW YORK TIMES

Shame on feminists, you filthy anti-social freaks!