The Number of Male Domestic Abuse Victims Is Shockingly High — So Why Don’t We Hear About Them?

ZimbaZumba · 2016-09-28T02:35:54+00:00

I think these are the most pertinent paragraphs:-

According to the CDC’s statistics — estimates based on more than 18,000 telephone-survey responses in the United States — roughly 5,365,000 men had been victims of intimate partner physical violence in the previous 12 months, compared with 4,741,000 women. By the study’s definition, physical violence includes slapping, pushing, and shoving.

More severe threats like being beaten, burned, choked, kicked, slammed with a heavy object, or hit with a fist were also tracked. Roughly 40 percent of the victims of severe physical violence were men. The CDC repeated the survey in 2011, the results of which were published in 2014, and found almost identical numbers — with the percentage of male severe physical violence victims slightly rising.

2016-09-28T02:15:04+00:00

According to Ruth Glenn, executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the reason for abuse is the same for men and women: “It is all about maintaining power and control over a partner,” she tells Yahoo Health. And because “we still live in a patriarchal society, and when it is domestic violence, you are looked at as weaker when you are the victim.”

'da fuck?

ThirdTurnip · 2016-09-28T02:56:16+00:00

So Why Don’t We Hear About Them?

Because the cries of rabid bigots posing as feminists are shockingly loud and effective.

2016-09-28T10:10:53+00:00

Demonizing men keeps the money flowing to Feminist organizations.

2016-09-28T10:54:20+00:00

Well, when the DA won't press charges... :(

bufedad · 2016-09-28T18:36:32+00:00

We have known for close to four decades that women are as much abusers as men are.

The problem isn't that this is new information, it's that no one cares.

Title	The Number of Male Domestic Abuse Victims Is Shockingly High — So Why Don’t We Hear About Them?
Author	ZimbaZumba
Upvotes	19
Comments	8
Date	September 27, 2016 11:37 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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