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> Inside A 'Batterers Program' for 'Abused' Women
> by Nev Moore
>
> == begin quote ==
>
> I found it repulsive. And yet this is where I was ordered to go for
> "treatment" to "raise my self-esteem." Some women had been away from their
> ex's for six to eight years, yet continued to go to the meetings. It was
> like their victim hood was an all encompassing identity. They were
> addicted to being a "victim" so people would feel sorry for them.
>
> Many said that although their husbands never actually abused or controlled
> them, they didn't always agree with them. So that was abusive. Many other
> women said, "I never knew I was being abused until I came to Independence
> House." [Hmmm...]
>
> One woman who was not being abused, but I guess was just lonely, would
> often talk for the entire two hours. She was very loud and aggressive,
> constantly interrupting others. She told us that she was taking night
> courses, and her (male) teacher had asked her to stop interrupting and
> dominating the classroom. She proudly told us that she called him at his
> home and informed him in no uncertain terms that he had verbally abused
> her. It was easy to understand why she was lonely. The support group was
> like a social club for her, where she had a hostage audience.
>
> There were other women who were, as my teenagers say, right off-the-loop.
> They were so intense and obsessive that they frightened me. Some would
> rock on the floor and wail, or curl into a fetal position and cry loudly
> throughout the
> meeting. One wanted to go to court and get a court order to have her ex
> sterilized so that he could never have children with another woman.
> Another (divorced from her ex) wanted to know where his P.O. box was."
>
> == end quote ==
>
> http://www.fatherhoodcoalition.org/c...pHouse0307.htm
Ach , allemaal niets nieuws, no greater fury then a woman scorned.
zegt het spreekwoord al, dus ook in oude tijden wist men al wat een feeks
was.