Janice Fiamengo on hypocrisy in treatment of violence against male vs females

shit-zen-giggles · 2023-11-24T06:50:53+00:00

Thanks for sharing!

It's particularly hard to argue that women’s violence “leads to less injury,” as the Canadian Women’s Foundation did, when a male victim lies dead. Perhaps for this reason, the number of men who die from IPV every year is almost never discussed by mainstream commentators. Statistics Canada’s “Trends in police-reported family violence and intimate partner violence in Canada, 2022” minimizes male death from IPV, reporting that of homicides in which police identified an accused perpetrator, 46% of female victims were killed by an intimate partner as compared to only 6% of male victims.

The difference in rates of male and female IP homicide seems definitive until one recalls that far more men than women are homicide victims, with men killed at about 3.5 times the rate for women. 6% of 661 men (the total number of men killed in Canada in 2022) is 40 men, while 47% of 203 (the total number of female homicide victims in 2022) is 95. This is an approximate number that does not take into account many variables, such as women killed by male strangers or male family members, or men killed by men at the instigation of women. But if the existence of approximately 95 female victims of intimate partner homicide in one year is worthy of being declared an “epidemic” that requires intensive awareness campaigns, increased government support, dedicated police units, specialized legal terminology, and well-funded academic research programs, shouldn’t approximately 40 male IPV homicides be at least acknowledged and regretted?

That, it seems, is too much to expect. Look at news reports of men killed by women and note the rhetorical contortions through which the woman’s homicidal agency is denied and horror at the man’s violent, undeserved death is minimized. Whenever possible, the murderer will be the one described as a victim, with authorities expressing sympathy and understanding for her actions. The murdered man is often little more than an occasion for an account of the woman’s troubled life.

Janice is such a knowledgable and candid researcher and commentator.

Title	Janice Fiamengo on hypocrisy in treatment of violence against male vs females
Author	StripedFalafel
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Date	November 23, 2023 11:04 PM UTC (2 years ago)
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