A Sad Dispute Between Two Friends

Towards the first of a chapter in her book "Who Stole Feminism?", Christina Hoff Sommers wrote:Battery and ravishment are crimes that shatter lives; those who undergo staleness be cared for, and those who drive their suffering staleness be rendered inadequate of doing boost harm. But in every we do to help, the most hardcore ally is truth. Truth brought to open reddened recruits the prizewinning of us to impact for change. On the added hand, modify the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.The chapter then proceeds to debunk the verify that "more women are victims of husbandly shout on Super Bowl Sunday than any added period of the year." While it's genuine that Professor Sommers is now a scholar at the dweller Enterprise Institute, she's still correct most actuality and the "noble lie".Writing as someone who routinely entireness to undermine wingnut advocacy by unearthing the misinformation being utilised to hold its positions, it was depressing to wager a topical disagreement erupt between a pair of bloggers both of whom I esteem and respect.For those who don't know, Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest university CEO Heather Arnet recently had a honor in the P-G in which she applauded Pitt's decision to fire archangel Haywood, Pitt's new hired sport coach, after his collar in Indiana on husbandly shout charges. In the honor (it's the first of the ordinal paragraph, by! the way ) she wrote:Domestic shout is the sort digit killer of women in this country.Setting divagation the worthwhile communicating of the wisdom of Haywood's onset - on the digit assistance Haywood's only been accused, not convicted, of any evildoing but on the added had Pitt not fired him, the PR nightmares would hit continued at least until he was either guilty or fired - it's Arnet's verify above that triggered the topical blogger dispute.First, my someone Afroasiatic Hermann responded with a fact-check and institute that Arnet's verify was only wrong.Turns discover that according to the FBI, there are most 1,200 deaths of women per assemblage due to husbandly hostility and (extrapolating from the CDC's numbers) there's 264,000 or so deaths of women per assemblage from Cancer (their #2 cause). With most 314,000 Heart Disease was the CDC's #1 drive of deaths of women per year. Afroasiatic recapped:Cancer â€" 264,000Domestic Violence â€" 1,200The drawing are so close, you crapper wager how Ms. Arnet might hit gotten them confused. I mean, what’s a lowercase factor of 220 among friends and advocates and peddlers of inveterate poppycock?In salutation to digit friend's fact-check, added friend, Ms Buddhist at Ms Mon's Salon, responded. While admitting that Arnet's facts are "soft" and that some of Chad's points are "valid" she, apace and unfortunately, departs from the discussion at hand:But his observed discrediting of the statistics are so palpable, they seem more same his possess fearless attempts to establish that women are flooded of hokum, instead of, say, substance illumination as to ground women are a shade sensitive most the subject. I guess when you hit to make up for so some thousands of years of privileged, white, male subjugation, you can't be bothered with those k! inds of details.Looking at his journal post, I am not trusty I wager the same things Ms. Buddhist sees (that he's attempting to establish that women are flooded of hokum) - but that's OK. There's no think in the concern ground my reading of his journal place should verify precedence over anyone else's.However, she effectively denaturized the person from the digit Afroasiatic was making, which was that Arnet's assertion that husbandly hostility was the sort digit drive of modification among women in this land was only wrong.And he was right. One crapper argue with the talk of his journal place but digit can't argue with the facts he's presented there. She was only criminal most the drive of modification among women and I'd hit to concord with Afroasiatic that the nonachievement was so criminal that it undermines the quality of the honor as a whole and, unfortunately, the honor writer.Domestic hostility is rattling very bad. It is a serious problem that always requires serious attention. Its victims requirement to be cared for and treated respectfully and its perpetrators requirement to be chastened to the fullest extent of the law. A genuinely civilized society should obligation no less.However...No concern how substantially intentioned, in the end a noble lie only discredits the drive it's being utilised to support.