RADAR Canada Statement
Women’s Shelters – Hijacked by Feminists….Founder
In the past I have myself taken part in fundraising activities for women shelters and without question assumed honesty and integrity of this operation. I have since found out that this organization is ever willing to be used without any real justification or threat of violence to support women in dividing families.
It operates under a cloak of secrecy and although receives vast amount of government funding is accountable to no one. The common scam I referred to earlier goes like this. A woman who wants to leave a relationship leaves home and goes to the women’s shelter and I suspect makes accusations against their partner. I say “suspect” because it is done in complete secrecy. The women shelter never verifies or checks with the partner, will not answer questions if contacted and all information is kept confidential.
The matron of the shelter then accompanies the women to court, where the court is informed the women can not stay at the shelter. The judge then throws the husband out of the house, the wife moves back in and the deadbeat hubby gets hit with a court order to support the divided family….A perfect scam.
When spouses are in conflict and on the edge, everything should be done to save the family. Yet the feminists in the shelter movement see it as an opportunity to tip the scales the other way and remove another father. Destroying a family is done over and over again with the help of lawyers and judges who are willing accomplices and governments who are eager to bankroll the operation in return for the feminist vote.
No child, women or man should be subjected to violence. We have police departments and a criminal justice system in place to deal with domestic violence. Perpetrators should be charged (as should false accusers) and be dealt with accordingly. So why are the police not involved when shelters are approached? Could it be that there was never any reason for them to get involved? If there was, I’m sure the women shelter would be the first to call them in (as they should).
What gives such an institution the right to counsel women, after absolutely no investigation to take actions that are unwarranted, hurt children and add to the destruction of families? Over time this organization, has become an industry in itself with, it seems, unlimited public funding. If they had their way, there would be a shelter next to every Tim Horton’s coffee shop….There are now 540 publicly funded women shelters across Canada.
Abuse should not be tolerated in our society and if in fact it’s as prevalent as purported by the women’s shelter movement why aren’t the police, governments, social agencies and criminal courts not more directly involved? And if the incidence of DV is a gender equal as the statistics have proven why does public funding not apply to all members of the family?
My intent here is not to provide a detailed analysis of women’s shelters but to point our there are many unanswered questions. I believe a complete review by the auditor general is warranted as a minimum.
From: Jeremy Swanson….Ottawa
More and more….and even more money… into the black hole of ‘shelter industry’ funding. Day after day. Week after week. Year after year. And no-one is checking the figures and asking where and to who the money is going. No-one is even investigating these “shelters” who is in them, where they are or the “numbered companies’ which run some of them. Its all just a blank cheque based on guilt. Every politician I know refuses to touch it because its the political ‘kiss of death’ and so the money just flows and flows and flows. An estimated One Billion dollars over a three year period in Ontario alone. In the end when someone does find the courage to take on an enquiry it will prove to be the greatest scam in Canadian history. Sadly and even worse no-one is listening to us now or even seemingly concerned never mind believing us. The real battered women-and battered men-are paid scant attention to while money lines the pockets of those who fleece the system under cover of shame and ideology.
The Modern day Shelter Movement – A Feminist Domain
Erin Pizzey became internationally famous for having started The first shelter (Britain refers to them as a refuge) for battered women in in Chiswick, London, England in 1971. She continued to run that program until 1982. In recent years the founder of women’s shelters has become outspoken about what the shelter movement has become and is now a critic.
Following are her insights from a National Post article that reflects her address to audiences in Canada.
Pizzey told audiences in three provinces that the shelter movement has been “hijacked” by anti-male feminists who, rather than being part of the solution, are helping to perpetuate abusive families.
Today, virtually all battered women’s shelters — including the one Pizzey founded — are operated by feminists whose analysis automatically stereotypes men as aggressors and women as victims. On both sides of the Atlantic, employment ads for women’s shelters routinely require that applicants subscribe to a feminist understanding of domestic violence.
As a result, the large number of women served by these shelters who require assistance themselves to interrupt destructive patterns are actually having their behaviour reinforced when shelter workers assure them they are not to blame.
For too long, says an authority on violence against women, society has ignored the fact that women can be violent too.
Pizzey says this sends a terrible message to children trapped in violent families. Kids learn that “this is what women do, this is what women are. My mother can batter me, hit me, beat me, shame me, humiliate me, and society ignores what she does. But my father has only got to lose his cool and he’s stigmatized, criminally charged and loses his family in divorce proceedings.”
Instead of stressing personal responsibility on the part of women who are themselves behaving inappropriately, Pizzey says today’s women’s shelters are fortifying a childish mantra: “He did it. He made me do it. It’s not my fault.”
Pizzey is offended by the fact that shelters promote the view that all men are suspect. “Give me an answer why men can’t work in shelters,” she demands, pointing out that the first money her shelter ever received was spent to employ a man to work with the children. “Many of them had never known a kind, gentle man.”
In sharp contrast to current policies, Pizzey’s shelter met with every willing man whose wife had fled there. Rather than keeping the shelter’s location secret, a sign loudly announced its presence in the community. In her view, the surveillance cameras and bulletproof windows of contemporary women’s shelters amount to “expensive paranoia.”
She says facilities that once taught people more humane ways of relating to one another have been turned into bunkers where an us-versus-them mentality festers. This has happened, she says, partly because battered women’s shelters receive millions in funding each year.
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“I knew that once we were getting any form of recognition, but above all, any funding, we would be in serious trouble,” she says. “Because the feminist movement was hungry for funding. And it didn’t take long for them to invade a very small conference that we had and to vote themselves into the national [shelter] movement. And they began by saying: “All women are victims of men’s violence.”
Pizzey says she hesitated, for many years, to publicly criticize what was going on in shelters because she feared these very necessary facilities would lose public support and be closed down. Today she thinks the average person is sophisticated enough to understand that it’s not the concept of the shelters she’s critical of, but the feminist philosophy that currently permeates them.
“What we need to do is reclaim the shelter movement,” she says. “It was hijacked 30 years ago. It was used for false purposes.”
Men’s Shelter Movement – Filling a gap that shouldn’t be there
This blog post includes an excerpt from the 2006 book Courts From Hell by Frank Simons
