Battered Men? Battered Facts

P. George writes "Does anyone want to help me with this article? I'm not sure who to believe when it comes to statistics, I'm not good at math and even though I'm down with some mens issues I'm also skeptical. It doesn't mention how battered men quite often have no one to go to for support. And since it's obvious this author had to do some research on this topic she/he/it had to come across the argument that most men don't even report being battered. I didn't get the feeling that this person even cares about men. I've never got that feeling from feminists. Also notice the quotations around "battered men". Can anyone give us an argument against the article? Thanks."


Click "Read More" for more info.P George continues, quoting the article "All these claims and suggestions about "battered men" being as pervasive and serious a problem as battered women are based on studies that are either discredited or taken out of context........The Gelles/Strauss numbers that Leo and others seize on are based on simply asking people whether they have ever hit, pushed, slapped, etc. their partners. They do not reflect the context of family violence. They do not indicate whether violence was used as aggression or in self-defense, or whether violence caused or was intended to cause injury...........Those who equate domestic violence against men with that against women either ignore or dismiss the results of the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, which found that 92 percent of those who report being assaulted by an intimate partner are female. They also brush off reports from emergency rooms, where 90 percent of the victims of domestic violence are women.......................Sherven and Sniechowski, in their op-ed, claim that "half of spousal murders are committed by wives, a statistic that has been stable over time." In fact, according to 1991 figures from the FBI, which has the most comprehensive murder statistics, 71 percent of people murdered by their spouses are women.
While it is true that some men are battered, research that looks at violence in a meaningful way shows that they are a tiny fraction of the number of battered women--perhaps 5 percent......These men are not helped by pundits who use overhyped, out-of-context numbers to argue that battering is no one's fault in particular--with the implication that nothing in particular needs to be done about it.""



Here's a list of hundreds of studies which FAIR is ignoring when they claim that one can't equate the amount of violence done against men with that against women. As to the first of the two studies they alluded to but did not provide actual citations for, I'm unfamiliar with any Bureau of Justice Statistics report on the subject. I imagine that such a report would have been created with data supplied from the Department of Justice based only on convictions or supplied from feminist sources, based on their desire to recieve more funding. Neither of which paints an accurate picture. With regards to the reports from emergency rooms, doctors have been trained to question women's claims of "falling down the stairs" and press to try and get them to say they were abused, they've never been trained to question a man's "sports injury" or to press for an admission of being a victim from men. That alone throws out any emergency room studies.



Spousal murders I'm not very well educated on, someone else will have to try and tackle that one.

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