Male Violence An "Epidemic?"

I've seen this stupid thing said many times before. Hearing about how there's an "epidemic" of male violence against women/girls and whenever we bring up the fact there's also plenty of femae violence and that both men/boys and women/girls alike are victims of it in higher numbers than many realize, we get the usual deflections and whataboutisms. Misandrists will says nonsense like "But female violence isn't an epidemic like male violence is, you're not fearing for your life." And full of excuses, they'll claim women being violent the majority of the time is in self-defense and rarely initiated by them. Not taking into account that there's violent women who claim self-defense knowing law enforcement and the courts will believe and side with them and that any kind of violence against men gets counted as being against women under the VAWA. So of course these things make male violence seem disproportionate when it really isn't, and to say nothing of male victims who never come forward out of fear of not being believed or being falsely accused.

Just how is "male violence" an epidemic when it gets so much recognition and condemnation and calls to action, and we never see or hear anything for the reverse? Why even use the "male violence" moniker when both genders are capable of horrendous violence against each other? Men and women alike both commit heinous acts of violence against each other in high numbers and it's not right either way. But misandrists as usual want to make it into a contest and completely mitigate and dismiss male victims and see to it female violence is ignored. They've unfortunately largely succeeded at passing their narrative as factual. And we can never bring this up without being accused of being misogynists or derailing the conversation about women's safety when neither is true. Therein is the actual epidemic, the silence and suppression of male victims and ignoring of female violence. Both men and women can be equally violent to each other (and both to boys/girls as well), and neither should be accepted nor dismissed.