How many men realize that numerous state and federal laws require your family practitioner to routinely ask your wife/gf if you are beating her? This is the ‘men are guilty until proven innocent approach’. And you are paying this physician to do so?
My response to this was to simply stop getting annual exams. There is no way I’m going to pay some guy to treat me like a criminal. This concerns my wife, of course, but I point out that the loss in life expectancy for skipping annual exams is less than 1 year. This is less than the gain in life expectancy one can get from switching to a vegetarian lifestyle. It is also less than the gain one gets by eliminating alcohol and caffeine from one’s diet. In short, it is a small (statistically) effect. And I get to know that I am not supporting feminist bigotry. So while, I am sure, feminists ‘get off’ on knowing that men are damned if they do (do pay physicians to treat men like criminals) and damned if they don’t (which means that, at least statistically, they will die younger), I would rather be damned for not supporting feminist bigotry.
How about the rest of you?
It’s not a question of worrying. My wife has never hit me. Nor have I hit her.
It is a matter of principle. Do citizens have a right to not be searched without a warrant or not? (since they have committed no crime, "they have nothing to worry about") Do citizens have a right to not be drug-tested or not? (since they have not taken drugs, "they have nothing to worry about") Do citizens have a right to free speech or not? (since they are not advocating overthrow of the government, why shouldn’t they allow the government to "approve" their speech).
In short, the idea that the government should be handed powers that essentially render citizens "guilty until proven innocent" is a very bad one. This approach has been used by ruthless governments everywhere to abuse their citizens.
That is why I object.
Can’t feminist do homework? Laws covering this are spread throughout federal (both statutes and federal spending bills, including Medicare and Medicaid) and state laws. For one example, California code says:
CA Health § 1233.5 requires medical clinics to screen patients for domestic violence
CA Health § 1259.5a requires acute care, acute psychiatric, and chemical dependence recovery hospitals to routinely screen patients for domestic violence.
Protocol: CA Health § 1233.5 requires licensed clinic boards and medical directors to establish and adopt written policies and procedures to screen patients for domestic violence, document injuries and refer patients to available services.
CA Health § 1259.5 requires acute care, acute psychiatric, and chemical dependency recovery hospitals to establish written policies and procedures to screen patients for domestic violence, document injuries and refer patients to available services.
