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Feminists protesting an abuse shelter for men.

Erin Pizzey is credited for opening the first abuse shelter for women. After hearing from the women there that they admitted to beating their husbands and sons and doing research on male victims, she decided to open another shelter for men this time.

Feminists were outraged, claiming that by giving men resources and counting them as victims, she was also condoning male violence. Just as today, they claimed that domestic violence was a male problem, and that men were the only possible perpetrators. They successfully harassed Pizzey with death threats and got her to leave the country. The men’s shelter was closed down. The women’s one is still up, but Pizzey is banned from entering her own establishment.

This example of bad activism has not gone away, as influential feminists still perpetuate that men either cannot be victims, or do not deserve support. The Deluth Model, based on feminist patriarchal theory, is used today to make all domestic violence cases counted as female on male. Regardless of the actual perpetrator, women are always considered victims and men are treated as perpetrators. The Deluth model is still used today in many states, and is gaining support.