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Ahh... domestic violence hype, one of my favorite debunking subjects. There has never been much good data regarding "Domestic Violence"... and there's a whole lot of hype, agendas and advocacy muddling up the problem.
If you look at arrest records it would appear that men are responsible for the majority of Domestic Violence, but of course the Police follow "The Deluth Model" which basically says that regardless of who starts a fight, they have to arrest the largest combatant.
If you look at sociological studies, you'll find that men and women initiate violence at approximately equal levels. If you include "verbal abuse" you STILL end up with men and women being about equally nasty to each other. Recent injury statistics indicate that women are about 2 times more likely to be injured enough to go to the hospital, but they don't take into account the stigma attached to a male who's being abused... a stigma that would tend to make him hide or lie about the source of his injuries.
One thing about these "Domestic Violence" hype results is that they're rarely about the broad "Domestic Violence", they most often are about Spousal Abuse. If you DO look at Child Abuse, you'll find that women are twice as likely to abuse their children. Of course since Domestic Violence is sold to us as a "MALE" problem, we're never going to adequately address the abuse of our children. Not good for kids, but important to maintain the victimhood illusion central to certain groups.
NOBODY deserves to be a victim of Domestic Violence, regardless of gender. It's about time we started treating Family Violence as the broad problem it is instead of the "man bad, woman victim" problem it isn't.
[ 12-12-2004, 08:10 PM: Message edited by: Thoran ]
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