More than 40% of domestic violence victims are male, report reveals

ImMufasa · 2014-07-31T17:25:05+00:00

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texasjoe · 2014-07-31T19:13:31+00:00

The post linking to this article on /r/TodayILearned today was censored, just saw it on /r/undelete.

SilencingNarrative · 2014-07-31T16:52:39+00:00

The comments section was fantastic. The vauge "oh come on how could this be true everyone knows women can't hurt men" posts with no stats to back them up were answered with links to studys, and lots of personal "it happened to me" stories from men and "it happened to men I know" stories from women.

Our message is getting out there.

2014-07-31T21:44:30+00:00

Surprise surprise, the original link in /r/todayilearned has been removed.

throwaway7145 · 2014-07-31T18:23:31+00:00

http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4536

The U.S. Department of Justice study of data from 1993 to 2010 found that 4 out of 5, (80 percent), of victims of non-fatal intimate partner violence were female.

http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4984

The U.S. Department of Justice study of intimate partner violence from 2003 to 2012, which included violence against children and other family members, (the above study only included romantic partners), found that 76 percent of victims of violence were female.

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fvv.pdf

More U.S. Department of Justice statistics. I suggest you just read it since it is impossible to justify any allegation that men are equally victims of intimate partner violence. In particular, note that women were 70 percent of the fatalities in 2007, a percentage that held steady since 1993. Also note that over 70 percent of male victims of IPV reported this to the police, while only 49 percent of female victims did so in 2007.

Edit: Added second site. Added a third site.

Legolas-the-elf · 2014-07-31T17:07:23+00:00

This has been known for over 10 years.

I think The Guardian is realising, as it's the lefty paper, that they'll have to start writing about men's issues.

tallwheel · 2014-08-01T00:48:00+00:00

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2014-07-31T19:51:55+00:00

This is amazing. Even guardian readers are realizing that men have problems, and feminism is helping to cause them.

Themadbarista · 2014-08-01T09:33:39+00:00

I feel sad and upset reading about the ways in which women have been abusing men in relationships. Abuse in relationships is not okay, no matter which gender is doing the abusing. This doesn't mean that we do not live in a patriarchal society, where many men feel that they have a right to do things which no human should be able to do to any other human. Please do not take these stories as proof that feminists are making things up, or that our days should be numbered. Please. Just as good men are fighting the good fight by respecting women and their rights, women are doing the same by loving their men and respecting who they need to be. Can this post please be about raising awareness for relationship abuse as a whole, rather than hating on feminists for an awful crime which isolated women have committed? Please don't continue this cycle of man vs. woman. We are all human, and we should all be safe and free from sexual and relationship and abuse, regardless of our gender.

Dasque · 2014-07-31T16:10:58+00:00

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Title	More than 40% of domestic violence victims are male, report reveals
Author	Zerowantuthri
Upvotes	389
Comments	48
Date	July 31, 2014 3:56 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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