And Here's ANOTHER One...!
An important recent paper (April 2006) by Murray Straus, which examines symmetry in partner violence in conjunction with dominance in the relationship. This research studied dating partners in 32 countries, and the finding was what you might intuitively expect - that the dominant partner was more likely to be violent. But what is most significant is that it puts to rest the idea the 'women only attack in self-defense.'
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"ABSTRACT
"The study investigated the widely held belief that violence against partners in marital, cohabiting, and dating relationships is almost entirely perpetrated by men, and that when women assault their partners, it has a different etiology than assaults by men. The empirical data on these issues were provided by 13,601 university students who participated in the International Dating Violence Study in 32 nations. The results in the first part of this paper show that almost a third of the female as well as male students physically assaulted a dating partner in the 12 month study period, and that the most frequent pattern was mutuality in violence, i.e. both were violent, followed by “female-only” violence. Violence by only the male partner was the least frequent pattern according to both male and female participants. The second part of the paper focuses on whether there is gender symmetry in a crucial aspect of the etiology of partner violence -- dominance by one partner, The results show that dominance by either the male or the female partner is associated with an increased probability of violence. These results, in combination with results from many other studies, call into question the assumption that partner violence is primarily a male crime and that, when women are violent, it is self-defense. Because these assumption are crucial elements in almost all partner violence prevention and treatment programs, a fundamental revision is needed to bring these programs into alignment with the empirical data. Prevention and treatment of partner violence could become more effective if the programs recognize that most partner violence is mutual and act on the high rate of perpetration by women and the similar etiology of partner violence by men and women."
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posted by Fidelbogen at 11:23 PM
2 Comments:
It's truly sad that people still try to claim that only men can be violent when all the evidence says otherwise.
If anything, most men are socialized not hit a woman, even in self defense, while the reverse is not true. How many people think it's okay for a woman to slap a man? Too many. Afterall he probably deserved it, right? Those same people would be shocked to see a man hit a woman. The following hypothetical situation demonstrates this socialization (this was someone else's example, unfortunately I can't remember who to attribute it to).
Scenario 1: A woman is up in a man's face screaming obscenities, slapping him, and spitting on him.
What does the man do?
Answer: most likely nothing, possibly walk away
Scenario 2: Same as scenario 1, except instead of a woman it is a 5'5", 105 lbs. man in the guy's face.
What does the man do?
Answer: He would promtly beat the 5'5" man in his face to within an inch of his life.
Ah...a shadowy spectre from the Inferno... ;)
But yes, the scenario you have sketched takes the measure of reality accurately enough, I think.
This situation involving double-standards ("never hit a girl") was in place long before second wave feminism erupted in the 1960s. The feminists simply took advantage of it with their customary two-faced opportunism.
At any rate, the whole business of female violence needs to be exposed and talked about as widely as possible - along with exposing the fraudulent ways that the feminists have promoted their claims.
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