Women More Likely to Commit Domestic Violence, Studies Show

The New American ^ | September 16, 2014 | Selwyn Duke

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Football player Ray Rice’s video-captured February attack on his then-fiancée has once again brought domestic violence into the public’s consciousness.

Or has it?

Critics would say that while it has placed a spotlight on violence against women, that isn’t at all synonymous with “domestic violence.”

Because studies show that most domestic violence may actually be violence against men.

This has just been brought to light by Guardian columnist Glen Poole, who recently asked why British actress Kelly Brook has “got away with punching two men”? Complaining that there “is little room for the female perpetrator or the male victim in mainstream modern discourse around violence and [sex],” he goes on to point out:

[TwelveOfTwenty]

After all, boys to a great degree are still raised with the prohibition “You don’t hit girls”; there is no corresponding prohibition for females, however, and they’re no longer raised with the companion teaching, “Ladies don’t hit at all.”

It's bad enough that men won't defend themselves or each other from this double standard, but they won't even defend their own sons. Why don't fathers just come out and admit that they don't care if their sons testicles are crushed just so some violent girl can amuse herself at their expense? They obviously don't care, or they would be doing something about it.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Men don’t call the cops, they just leave.

Copy that, Houston ...


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[Paladins Prayer]

No one is saying that women can do as much damage, only that they do initiate more violence in relationships. It’s something that’s clearly true and that has been verified by a multitude of studies. It’s not hard to figure out why it’s the case, either.

[Paladins Prayer]

Yes, that is going on a lot nowadays, isn’t it? If I had a son, I can assure you that I’d teach him how to defend against it while he was young (little kids are easy prey for anything). I’d also tell him that he should be a gentleman — UNLESS a girl tries that. In that case he should make sure she never dares try it again.

But, yes, it’s disgusting how we don’t protect our young brothers.

[Chickensoup]

Perfect Storm by Brad Paisley

If she was a drink
She’d be a single-barrelled
Bourbon on ice
Smooth with a kick
A chill and a burn all
At the same time

She’s Sunday drive meets
High speed chase
She ain’t just a song
She’s the whole mix tape
She’s so complicated
That’s the way God made her
Sunshine mixed with
A little hurricane

And she destroys me in that t-shirt
And I love her so much it hurts
I never meant to fall like this
She don’t just rain she pours
That girl right there’s
The perfect storm

I know how to make her laugh
Or blush, or mad at me
But that’s OK there ain’t no one
More beautiful angry

And she loves just as deep
As she goes when she’s down
The highs match the lows
Can’t have one without the other
And I love her just the way
God made her
Sunshine mixed with
A little hurricane

And she destroys me in that t-shirt
And I love her so much it hurts
I never meant to fall like this
But she don’t just rain she pours
That girl right there’s
The perfect storm

She’s the girl of a lifetime
A guy like me spends his whole life
Looking for, that girl right there’s
The perfect storm
Woah-oh-oh
Woah-oh-oh
(She destroys me in that t-shirt)

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Men don’t call the cops, they just leave.

That's part of the problem. Every man that doesn't press charges when assaulted by a woman is one less showing up in the statistics. That's why the statistics are so lopsided, even though we all know women commit domestic violence as often as men.

It might seem easier in the short term, but the one sided reporting and policies for domestic abuse, not to mention the money taken from our wallets to pay for the one sided policies, are the long term result.

[Kozak]

Look at the difference in tv , movies and commercials.
A woman slaps a man, throws something or threatens violence and the audience applauds and you hear “ you go girl “ or “ he deserved that”.
NEVER happens the other way around.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

No one is saying that women can do as much damage

You might want to check this out before saying that.

[Paladins Prayer]

I was speaking in the aggregate, not in the particular.

By the way, I went to your link. I have a feeling I know why it is you found that story. I’m a pretty good psychologist.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

I was speaking in the aggregate, not in the particular.

Do you know of any woman who, if she turned violent, could not do this?

I have a feeling I know why it is you found that story.

I'll tell you why. I searched for stories like this to drive the point home that violent women can cause serious injuries, and I remembered this case from a few years ago.

[Paladins Prayer]

Do I know of any woman who couldn’t do that? It depends. If the guy if asleep or immobilized, I’m sure most any woman could. But it’s a pretty easy thing to defend against.

You don’t think you could defend yourself against the average woman? I would hope you could. If not, I feel sorry for you.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

But it’s a pretty easy thing to defend against.

Against the assault itself, yes. But against that combined with a society that frowns on males hitting females regardless of the circumstances, an openly rigged judicial system that will find a way to blame the male if it can, and the occasional hero who will want to defend the lady fair, not so easy.

And if you're a boy whose father has drilled it into you that it is never right to hit a girl and never bothered to tell you about the kick to the groin or how to protect yourself from it, and you're in a school system that allows girls to assault you for no reason and denies you the basic right to defend yourself, definitely not easy.

You don’t think you could defend yourself against the average woman? I would hope you could. If not, I feel sorry for you.

Your psychology expertise didn't prove true here. I could be physically handicapped from any number of reasons, in which case your comments would be downright callous.

But that isn't the case, so no harm done.

[Paladins Prayer]

Actually, I agree with your comment here completely. I’ll also say that what I said referred to grown men — I didn’t mean to imply that little boys can defend themselves similarly. Little kids basically can’t defend themselves at all and are easy prey for most anything. This is why I do have a big problem with any parent who tells a very young girl to “kick ‘em where it hurts.” Frankly, it’s a very violent, dangerous move. And if you wouldn’t teach a child to poke another child in the eyes as self-defense, you shouldn’t be teaching groin attacks either. They occupy the same level of seriousness, and you don’t teach little kids how to seriously hurt other little kids.

As for school systems, well, yes, they’re hotbeds of anti-male bias and hatred.

Now, about your last comment: I said, “You don’t think you could defend yourself against the average woman? I would hope you could. If not, I feel sorry for you.” Well, if you were handicapped, then I’d have a really good reason to feel sorry for you, wouldn’t I!

[PapaBear3625]

I’ve sometimes wondered to what extent the media portrayal of smallish women engaging in hand to hand with much larger men and winning has contributed to this. Until they find out the hard way, I think many modern women don’t realize how extreme the disparity is between the sexes in their ability to commit violence effectively.

And then you have the proliferation of "women's self defense" classes, which have women sparring with male instructors who are not really trying their best to hurt their female students. Then they get into a real-world fight against some guy who actually hits back and shatters their illusion of being a bad-ass gurrrrl.

[Lazamataz]

That is my experience as well. The only time I encountered DV, it was a chick who lived with me who liked to drink daily, and every three months or so, she liked to take a swing at me.

[PapaBear3625]

Go to Youtube and simply search on “black woman mcdonalds”

In that incident, the "woman" was a tranny.

[Sherman Logan]

Exactly.

For most women, the only truly effective and practical defense against a male attacker is a handgun. Self-defense courses are an exercise in self-delusion.

Oddly enough, modern feminists in general are among those most adamant about eliminating women’s only effective way to defend themselves. A female who knows how to use her gun is every bit as deadly as a man. No other method of self-defense even comes close.

[PapaBear3625]

I have a friend like that. He’s very charismatic...ladies love him but he always picks the wrong one.

The problem is, the crazies are generally the sexually wildest.

[PapaBear3625]

and btw I know there's bruisers out there among the women but the vast majority of women couldn't do harm to a man physically unless they had a weopon to use...so a woman's hit is not the same, not nearly as a man's....

Violent women often use weapons. Thrown objects, knives, guns. Or just seething, waiting until he's asleep, and cutting off his penis with scissors.

There have been a number of studies of female-against-male violence. There's also a wiki article with links to studies.

[PapaBear3625]

That's part of the problem. Every man that doesn't press charges when assaulted by a woman is one less showing up in the statistics

Men are afraid that if the cops get involved, the man is the one who will be arrested and charged, regardless of the true situation. Thus, it's best to walk away from the crazy woman.