Anti-male misinformation about domestic violence

A professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine has the following slide presentation (.ppt file) that falsely says 95% of domestic violence victims are women (see slide 9 in the file), a figure that is so outrageously old and false that I haven't even seen it in a long time.

She also cites other myths that ignore and downplay male victims and female violence. Please email her at asisley-at-umm.edu.

For quick stats to use see http://www.ncfmla.org/dv_data.html.

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Ed. note: Polite notes, please, informing her that the stats and other parts of the presentation are false or out-of-date and that it would serve the public interest to update her presentation. She may just be poorly-informed as many people are, including medical people. We're a lot more likely to see that presentation get corrected and win an ally if we appeal politely rather than bombard her with flame-mail.

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I love the fact that she never cites all these wonderful statistics. Maybe because she's pulling them out of her ass? Or maybe because she'll get the Christina Hoff Sommers treatment and someone will follow the sources back to one biased study that has been discredited for years.

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