In New Zealand, women are nearly 3 times more
likely than men to be the sole perpetrators of dating violence.
The report by Dr. Murray Straus (University of New Hampshire) showing
women commit more dating violence (world-wide) than men do is at: http://pubpages.unh.edu/%7Emas2/ID41E2.pdf
Dr. Straus also says that, in the majority of cases, mutual violence
occurs because the women continually assault the men until they finally
attack back and make it mutual at that point -- see http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/06042006/news/106166.htm
Of course, women, at that point, can phone the police and get the men
arrested for domestic violence. That is a result of the Women's Movement,
with its accomplices in the media and universities, having got Society
to accept that domestic violence is a "Women's Issue".
The Women's Movement has trained women to report violence by males,
but there has been no corresponding effort to get men to report violence
by women. In fact, New Zealand men have been trained to ignore female
violence -- blogger David Farrar, for example, talks openly of having
received lots of bruises after having told females something they did
not want to hear. He considers it would be incompatible with his masculinity
for him to take those assaults by females seriously. Not only is it
sexist and chivalrous to judge female violence by a separate standard
-- it is an attitude which could lead to serious male violence on a
female if, after putting up with repeated female violence, the male
finally "snaps". It is also important to note that David Farrar
used to work in a Cabinet Minister's office, which is an indication
of the mentality of males who are allowed to get into positions of power
nowadays.
Scientific and social issues should not be captured
by social and political movements in free and democratic societies.
If they are so captured, then the societies involved are not really
free and democratic. They are totalitarian societies, ripe for violent
upheaval.
Also note that 71 percent of those interviewed for the study were women,
and 29% were men. Most of these college women were from the social sciences,
indicating that this study has more validity than ever since it is mostly
women (and especially feminists) telling on themselves for being the
most violent ones in relationships. They state that it's rarely in self
defense but for many reasons, just like it is for men -- both sexes
use violence for power and control reasons
sometimes. Dr. Straus says the studies show that women do this even
more often than men do.
Straus' bottom line is that violence BY women needs equal attention
as violence by men, and that our methods of treating and preventing
violence must be radically amended in order to stop facilitating violence
as the system now does.
