[Canada] In one Canadian study, 64% of male survivors of IPV who called police reported being treated as the abuser (Dutton 2012).

Present_League9106 · 2024-06-17T14:01:43+00:00

Is there evidence that this is improving? 2012 is before this wave of feminism ramped up, and I've noticed that people slowly start realizing that there's a lot of double standards in how feminists perceive the world. Ironically, their hypocrisy benefits us a little. I'd be curious if there's more recent studies.

WeEatBabies · 2024-06-17T11:30:25+00:00

Feminism working as intended!

anomnib · 2024-06-17T21:23:48+00:00

This is key:

“While their findings suggest that women experience greater mental health consequences across all subtypes of IPV, they also highlight the limitations of their analysis, particularly that the terms men and women may use to describe mental health may differ (e.g., men are more likely to use the term “stress” and less likely to use “shame,” and “guilt”).”

I suspect that this would also explain the contradiction in differences in depression and suicide rates between men and women.

rammo123 · 2024-06-17T19:57:37+00:00

Yeah, but it's "rightly so" that we pay more attention to female victims.

Eaglingonthemoor · 2024-06-18T01:14:23+00:00

This issue has always stressed me out and I don't have any good answers to it, because law enforcement can't litigate this stuff on the spot and need to prioritise the party that they understand to be at higher risk. It is an unfortunate biological reality that in an intimate partner violence situation, where it is unclear to the police who the aggressor is, they must usually assess women as being at higher risk of serious injury due to men generally being the physically stronger party. I understand why they need to do this. It does not make it fair.

Full disclosure and content warning for abuse perpetrated by a woman, I have been grappling with this issue since my own instance of IPV. I was the aggressor, but my (male) partner was much stronger than me physically and his defensive/retaliatory violence was a higher risk to me than I was to him. I understand why the police had to respond as they did. My issue begins when the court system would not believe me when I told them that his violence was defensive.

ETA: I got help btw. No violence from either of us since. We are good friends now.

Inside_Anybody2759 · 2024-06-22T16:29:05+00:00

Cops treat everyone like abusers. This isn’t shocking one bit. And according to stats (in America) it’s 1 in 4 women experiencing domestic violence, and 1 in 10 men. Intimate violence is a gender issue as so many women are abused, as men are physically stronger and bigger so women can’t really run or fight back. But like, yall act like police are there to help you. They aren’t.

Title	[Canada] In one Canadian study, 64% of male survivors of IPV who called police reported being treated as the abuser (Dutton 2012).
Author	NonbinaryYolo
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Date	June 17, 2024 8:13 AM UTC (2 years ago)
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