MVAW = male violence against women.

Posted this on another sub and felt it was worth sharing here. I feel it definitely plays into misandrist narratives.

I hate it whenever some misandrist idiot always deflects from the issues of women being violent to men (which absolutely does happen, just as much as the other way around and both are equally abhorrent). But it's especially irritating and infuriating when they'll constantly downplay female VAM (with the usual it's not nearly as high, it's usually in self-defense, men are stronger and thus more damaging, men aren't fearing for their lives at night, etc.) but then they'll use the truly stupid argument that somehow MVAW is an epidemic. I mean WTF. Don't even get me started when they'll use their favorite S-word and claim MVAW is a systemic issue and FVAM isn't. Yes, because men all over in power loathe women so much they're seeing to it men everywhere are regularly committing acts of violence against women. Never mind how MVAW is always given attention and condemned, there's countless shelters for female victims but none for men, the subject of FVAM is never given any sort of attention. Yet somehow MVAW is both systemic and a epidemic.

I know I shouldn't let idiots like this get to me, but it's so infuriating and painful to think there's people this equally stupid and ignorant who spread this stupidity as factual. Both genders can be violent to each other in equal measure and innocent men and women alike have been victims of terrible violence committed by bad people of both. But misandrists as usual spread their hate, ignorance and stupidty as being both factual and the definitive word on the issue. And claiming MVAW is an "epidemic" is just another way they like to claim being male is inherently a bad thing and a problem to be corrected. Ugh.