The Psycho Ex Wife

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Even today, one of the most ludicrous and methodically debunked hunk of bulldung trotted out into the mainstream media, the myth that Superbowl Sunday is day that “more women suffer spousal abuse than any other day of the year” is discussed as if it is fact. It’s not.

Lord knows, given my experiences, there were about 10 Superbowls during which I could have “snapped” and supported this assertion. But alas, I always managed to show restraint and spare us all becoming another statistic - false or otherwise.

Before the 1993 Superbowl, a number of representatives from various women’s groups held a news conference announcing this bit of unfounded hysteria. A big publicizer of anti-man myths is Lenore Walker, who further fanned the flames of burning piles of fiction by claiming she had undertaken a 10-year study supporting these claims.

Not unlike so many other falsehoods, embellishments, and hysteria - the media took the proverbial football and ran for the endzone with this one, never taking a look back. Of course, they ran the wrong way with the ball. It received so much attention that NBC created and broadcast a public service announcement before the game to remind “men” that domestic abuse is a crime. As if men and fathers in this country didn’t already know by this time that not only is domestic abuse a crime, false allegations against you for the same is also a crime against women (at least that’s how they’re treated).

The reality is, Superbowl Sunday is statistically no different than any other day in terms of domestic abuse. Further, I eagerly await the study that demonstrates how pissed-off female partners assault their male counterparts for spending so much time watching football.

The ensuing weeks and months saw a fair amount of backpedaling by those who had propagated the Superbowl violence myth, but - as usual - the retractions and corrections received far less attention than the sensational, but false, stories that everyone wanted to believe.

Today, I still encounter the occasional believer of this completely false statistic and they will swear up and down that it’s the truth. My how the radical crusaders of women’s rights (and hysteria) have managed to entrench this and so many other untruths about domestic violence to further their agenda (so successfully).