The Guardian is forced to retract false claim that "61% of male victims of domestic violence were victims of men" and acknowledge that "a significant number of perpetrators are female"

JohnKimble111 · 2020-03-06T08:31:36+00:00

Note how they also describe the first refuge opening in Chiswick almost 50 years ago, yet refuse to credit Erin Pizzey for her hard work in doing so. Go to the Refuge site and you won’t see Erin’s name anywhere either, not even on the pages about their history and how they were founded. Imagine erasing your founder from history because of your sheer hatred and bigotry.

RichardJLyon · 2020-03-06T08:45:57+00:00

Feminist activists are seeking to make changes to the Domestic Violence bill, currently being prepared for making law.

Having it established as “gendered crime” is essential to their strategy as it triggers additional erosions of men’s rights

This article is part of that effort. They published false, inflated statistics calculated to reinforce the claim that domestic violence is a gendered crime.

They allowed the false information to stand for nine days.

Lupinfujiko · 2020-03-06T13:19:33+00:00

How much longer must we tolerate male brutality against women and children?

What a despicable display of dishonest journalism.

I'm so sick of this bullshit.

Go fuck yourselves Guardian.

Saywhatyouwill78 · 2020-03-06T08:26:34+00:00

Feminist propaganda/gender studies courses work hard to erase recognition of male victims. If feminism truly “opposed gender roles”, they wouldn’t do this. But “men can’t be victims” is a gender stereotype they are very comfortable with

2020-03-06T09:24:37+00:00

The Guardian are such dick-haters.

IronJohnMRA · 2020-03-06T14:27:44+00:00

For domestic violence as a whole, evidence suggests that where victims are male a significant number of perpetrators are female.

No kidding? That must have been hard to admit. The truth really hurts I bet.

IronJohnMRA · 2020-03-06T14:42:49+00:00

u/JohnKimble111

Good job catching this retraction, and archiving it. Articles have a habit of disappearing after awhile. Adding to our trove of evidence is noble work.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2020-03-06T13:36:57+00:00

According to the Duluth model women cannot abuse men. They can only defend themselves from patriarchal aggression.

This is how feminism helps men.

If that appeals to you I'd recommend r/menslib.

ZimbaZumba · 2020-03-06T14:15:03+00:00

Utterly disgusting load of pretend journalists. They left this error up for 9 days, did not actually change the article and could not be bothered to find the actual statistic.

A complaint to IPSO should be made.

thowaway_throwaway · 2020-03-06T15:07:05+00:00

So apparently feminists would rather throw gay men under the bus (creating some highly inaccurate stereotype of gay men being violent) than admit women can be violent.

2020-03-06T15:15:56+00:00

Lie long enough consistently enough and in time you'll forget it's a lie.

I mean, even in the wording of the retraction she/they specifically avoided confessing that the majority of perpetrators against men are women. "Many," was the word used, not the more accurate and honest "most." You think that's an accident???

thespamtram1 · 2020-03-06T13:32:44+00:00

They didnt change the article

Darthdooku420 · 2020-03-06T15:39:09+00:00

The guardian is a leftist rag.

Uqtpa · 2020-03-06T15:21:55+00:00

Domestic violence is not gender-neutral.

Yet another example of their feminist (and misandrist) propaganda. It's sad that The Guardian has been reduced to a mouthpiece for women who hate men.

CuppaSouchong · 2020-03-06T17:06:06+00:00

Right below the article they go on to say, "Rampant disinformation, partisan news sources and social media's tsunami of fake news are no basis on which to inform the American public in 2020", while trying to get more subscribers. Bunch of double-talking swine.

chambertlo · 2020-03-06T15:26:19+00:00

Women commit more domestic violence, on men and other women. Prove me wrong.

TacticalFedorine · 2020-03-06T14:51:11+00:00

Complain to IPSO?

holeefukbro · 2020-03-06T19:20:55+00:00

The Guardian? The pseudo-outlet that spams "dEMi LovAtO's yUuuuUuugE pLasTic aSs" on Snapchat to attract trashy and uneducated audiences? Yeah not surprised.

2020-03-06T22:23:47+00:00

The Guardian is probably the worst leftist trash that covers Australia.

Jackson2615 · 2020-03-07T03:11:50+00:00

The Guardian has never let facts or evidence get in the way of a story …….

2020-03-06T16:25:32+00:00

Wouldn't 39% be a significant number?

Stock_Elevator · 2020-03-07T18:50:30+00:00

Yeah no. Us gay men are actually the least likely to go out and abuse another man, statistically speaking.

Jakeybaby125 · 2020-03-06T10:02:43+00:00

I still like the Guardian mainly because they support Labour but their feminist ideology is toxic bullshit.

armed_renegade · 2020-03-06T14:40:29+00:00

Is there a link that doesn't give me a 403 error.

goodmod · 2020-03-07T09:00:49+00:00

EDIT: My mistake. Please ignore this comment.

Please use appropriate flairs.

This is not an issue of Activism/Support.

I have flaired it appropriately as Feminism.

NecroHexr · 2020-03-06T13:26:01+00:00

Meh, seems like they made an honest mistake. Better they changed it and admitted in then just carrying on wordlessly