Erin Pizzey was the woman who started the first and currently the largest domestic violence shelter in the modern world, Refuge, then known as Chiswick Women's Aid, in 1971.

When she found out that men could be victims of domestic violence too, she created a shelter for battered husbands.

Feminists were outraged. They burned the shelter to the ground. Erin has been the subject of death threats and boycotts because her experience and research into the issue led her to conclude that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women are equally as capable of violence as men are.

Today Erin Pizzey is an ex-feminist and mens rights activist. She is 82.