Posted on 12/17/2004 9:28:49 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
What Idiots? Look in the mirror, please.
What don't you understand about a woman being four times more likely to be abused by a lesbian partner than a woman being abused by her husband?
LOLOLOL
According to the studies, it looks like men are the ones getting bashed more often than women, though your personal attack on science is noted.
If the attack was directed at me, why is it 'woman bashing' to tell the truth, and scientifically at that?
Looks like you would Rather this be buried.
Women experience significantly more partner violence than men do. According to survey estimates, approximately 1.5 million women and 834,700 men are raped and/or physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually in the United States. Because women are also more likely to be injured by intimate partners, research aimed at understanding and preventing partner violence against women should be stressed.
--Violence against women is primarily partner violence: 76 percent of the women who were raped and/or physically assaulted since age 18 were assaulted by a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, or date, compared with 18 percent of the men.
However, the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics published a report in May, 2000 which sheds some light on part of domestic violence. Their report is based on their own surveys (National Crime Victimization Survey), and on data from the FBI (homicide data). In their report they define domestic violence as violent crimes by current or former spouses, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Violent crimes include lethal (homicide) and nonlethal (rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault) offenses. From their data, we can say that in 1998, women experienced at least 900,000 violent offences at the hands of an intimate, and men were victims of at least 160,000 violent crimes by an intimate partner. Their report did not mention emotional abuse, harassment or stalking.
So, more than 1 million violent crimes were committed against persons by their current or former spouses, boyfriends, or girlfriends. To view the report, go to Intimate Partner Violence 16
Gender trends: Women make up 3/4 of the victims of homicide by an intimate partner. Actually, 33% of all women murdered (of course, only cases which are solved are included) are murdered by an intimate partner. Women make up about 85% of the victims of non-lethal domestic violence. In all, women are victims of intimate partner violence at a rate about 5 times that of males. 16
Nearly one-third of American women (31 percent) report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives. –Commonwealth Fund survey, 1998 Estimates range from 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend each year to 4 million women who are physically abused by their husbands or live-in partners each year. – Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends, U.S. Department of Justice, March, 1998
http://www.ndvh.org/dvInfo.html
Females are victims of family violence at a rate at least 3 times that of males.
(Bureau of Justice Statistics, Highlights from 20 years of Surveying Crime Victims (p25.) http://www.actabuse.com/dvstats.html
I will. You can also do your part in getting the truth out.
right before my divorce my ex tried to hit me and i caught her fist, she called the police and i was dragged in for grabbing her. the charges were dropped, however the rumours of me beating my wife flew out of proportion. guess i should have taken the hit
False.
Are there any other kinds?
"What idiots, only women in lesbian relationship...therefore only women abused."
LOL!...I m with u on this one. This is pure lol stuff.
A lot of crap get passed on in the name of "science".
It only a statistical survey and and in all such surveys there are plenty of confounding factors which are not all that apparent.
Assexual?
All they have to do is look at Emergency Room records. Look at all those men coming in black-and-clue and with broken bones! You never see a woman beat up by her boyfriend or husband! The safest thing for guys to do is marry a docile Asian or Russian woman. American women are terrible! ROTFL
Thanks for the ping. Read later bump.
No offense, but you're not clear about your methodology, so it's difficult to tell whether you selectively chose these articles or not.
I don't want to know...
My ex-girlfriend was pretty violent. I was at her house once and she got upset and threw a $445 Thomas Kinkade painting at me.
"1.) Women are four times more likely to be victims of domestic violence in a lesbian household than in a married household.(Claire Renzetti, Violent Betrayal)"
I would think women would also be more likely to be perpetrators of domestic violence in a lesbian household than in a married household, considering there are twice as many women in a lesbian household as in a married household. I wonder how they categorized the married lesbian households in Massachusetts. LOL
Corlorde,
Your first bolded listing is affected dramatically from female on female violence. Yes, women are far more likely to assault women than men are men in an intimate setting.
Your second bolded listing lists cohabting partner, which includes other women. It also lists the ones who WERE assaulted, not that 76% of all women are assaulted. Men are far more likley to report assault, that is why confidential, sociological and cross-cultural studies like the ones I listed are far more accurate.
Your third bolded listing and the others also do not take into account that men are far less likley to report abuse than women are.
That is why Bureau Statistics, which you gave, are less accurate than sociological and cultural studies. They are less accurate than personal studies and interviews which have a far less rate of error.
None of your studies were long-term studies, either.
You would be wise to pay attention more to long-tem studies, which I provided and you did not.
You would be wise to pay attention more to sociologically, culturally, and cross-culturally based studies which I provided and you did not.
You would be wise to pay attention to randomly-based confidential, personal interviews, which have a much lower rate of error than do your reliance on jujst Bureau Statistics. Men are far lees likley to report abuse. But they will talk about it in sociological interviews, cross-cultural and cultural interviews, and poersonal studies. That is why my studies which I listed are FAR SUPERIOR to yours.
Have a good one.
Is this some strange blame Bush thread?
Corlorde,
No, its true.
Go to post #57. Your argument has been shredded.
Anyone who ahs been involved in sociological and cross-cultural research as well as personal interviews and studies will learn that they are far more accurate indicators than Bureau Statistics which are drawn primarilly FROM POLICE RECORDS!
POLICE records compile REPORTED instances of abuse.
Men are far less likely to report abuse to the police as women are, idiot.
As I stated the studies that I listed are far more accurate.
There could be women who used to be men but later found that they were attracted to women so they became lesbians.
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