I just discovered this interesting article from two months ago, Male victims are being left out of the domestic violence conversation :

Statistics Canada continues to report that around 80 per cent of the intimate partner violence (IVP) victims in police-reported incidents are women. 

However, according to their own report “Family Violence in Canada: A statistical profile” men self-reported to have been abused by their partners at a higher rate than women- with 4.2 per cent of men and 3.5 per cent of women being victims. These two reports raise interesting questions about how and when to use them.

​

Experts explain that because these self-reported stats are often overlooked this can lead to male victims being left out of the conversation, and without proper support. They also explain that there has been an overuse of the police-reported statistics by both academics and the media. This has led to situations where male victims have not been believed by police, and in some cases even face accusations of being the perpetrator.

This is the result of decades of institutional sexism in the way the media, academia and government deal with domestic violence and abuse in general.

No support for male victims + the police trained by biased policy + the society already have a bias and see violence against men as not big deal = this catastrophe you see in the stats !

“I’ve certainly heard that a lot in men’s peer support groups, even when the violence is bilateral, [men are seen as the perpetrators],” McKinnon says. CCMF part of the large organization the Canadian Association for Equality (CAFE).

Mackinnon points to what is called the Duluth Model which has become well known around the world. However, this model has also received criticism for the way it differentiates between male and female abusers, making it seem as if women are never the aggressor. This model states that a man’s use of violence is based on “many social, cultural and institutional avenues.”

As for women it says “Their violence is primarily used to respond to and resist the controlling violence being used against them. On the societal level, women’s violence against men has a trivial effect on men compared to the devastating effect of men’s violence against women.”

Who created the Duluth Model ? feminist academics, who push government institutions to use the the Duluth Model ? feminist lobbies. and they still have the audacity to claim feminism as a movement for equality and justice !

The supports for women and children include 627 shelters across the country. There is currently only one operating shelter for men in Canada, the Men’s Resource Center in Winnipeg.

Why the feminist Justin Trudeau didn't fix this ?! if feminism mean treating men and women as equal this should be on his top list !

The Calgary Journal examined articles in an ongoing series produced by the CBC entitled “Stopping Domestic Violence”. Of the nearly 50 articles in this series, only one mentioned a male victim, and that was in the context of how the woman rehabilitated herself after being the perpetrator. It is unclear if CBC interviewed the person she abused. The only supports for men mentioned in the series were ones centered around rehabilitation and education to prevent men from becoming abusers. The articles which mainly focused on supports and shelters failed to mention CAFE, CCMF or the men’s shelter in Winnipeg.

​