Health | June 24, 2009 | 16 comments

Domestic violence: Women abusers on the rise

source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/22/2604559.htm?section=justin

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Preconceived ideas of gender roles have led a lot of people to believe it would be virtually impossible for a women to physically abuse a man.

But co-director of Men's Rights Agency Sue Price says it is exactly this stereotype that leads to battered men hiding in shame, fearful of being ridiculed, or even prosecuted.

"I've had SAS soldiers in tears because the wife is a black belt karate expert and yet they know that if they even try to restrain her he might be charged with assault and domestic violence," she said.

Ms Price believes the reason there are no services for male victims comes down to money and the monopoly women's services have over it.

"Women's groups are in total denial that women can be violent and they maintain that stand because they want to garner all the funding that's available under the domestic violence legislation," she said.

"They won't take it that a man can be a victim of domestic violence, they always portray the mantra that it's always women who are victims and men who are perpetrators. That's clearly not true. We've known it for years but there's been an absolute refusal to acknowledge it."

She says this has helped contribute to the increase in women abusers and has called on other states to follow NSW and release their domestic abuse figures, which she believes would tell a similar story.
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16 comments // Domestic violence: Women abusers on the rise

  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  

    • MotherForTruth--I notice that you ALWAYS post items that put women in a bad light, and focus almost exclusively on female-perpetrated violence.

      You might object to my use of the word ALWAYS here, and in fact, you are right to object because while the overwhelming majority of your posts highlight women in the wrong, ALWAYS is not really an accurate term to define your posting history with.

      In that vein, I dispute your statement that "The law is ALWAYS on the woman's side." That is just blatantly untrue, and if it were true, we wouldn't have women's prisons, or women underground fleeing abusive men and trying to protect their children from court decisions that hand children over to the custody of their abusers.

      Sorry, ain't buyin what you are dishin.

    • 2 years ago
  • MotherForTruth
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  
    • Incredulous:

      Uhhhh, sorry to burst your bubble, but I quoted you. Better re-read your posts. You said, "The law is always on the women's side" in your reply to UncleCharlie.

      You could delete it, but I did a copy and past from your post.

      Facts do speak for themselves

    • 2 years ago
  • SHAWN_RITTIMAN
  • kiltedandfree
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      kiltedandfree  

    • The great equalizer is the gun in the night stand. Or knives in the kitchen. A woman even a child can be equal to a man's strength when they have a snub nosed 38 or a 10 inch blade when the man is asleep, drunk or both.

    • 2 years ago
  • nursediesel
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      nursediesel  

    • Yes, but my friend and relative by marriage was such a sweet man. By no means a woos, he worked on the river boats and barges. That's rough work. He just couldn't hit a woman. (Although she did deserve it! After what she did.)

    • 2 years ago
  • lj111
  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  

    • These men must be "Walter Mitty" types to allow that to happen. If a woman did this to me, she'd go through the air (without a flying trapeze!)

    • 2 years ago
  • kiltedandfree
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  • nursediesel
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      nursediesel  

    • I personally know of a situation where a wife burned her husband with cigarettes for invalid reasons.
      It has so many reasons why it's kept secret. Rare but it does happen.
      Much more verbal and mental abuse, I would think.

    • 2 years ago
  • pjacobs51
  • 23485768934756
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      23485768934756  

    • "We have so many reports of people having hot liquids poured over them in bed, glasses broken, men hit over the head from the back, attacked while they're asleep, cut, burnt," she said.

      PaHAHAHA

    • 2 years ago
  • MotherForTruth
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      MotherForTruth  

    • This is really sick...
      "Women's groups are in total denial that women can be violent and they maintain that stand because they want to garner all the funding that's available under the domestic violence legislation,"

    • 2 years ago
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