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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
Lets talk about real life, not stats... how many people do you know who have ever been the victim of a violent crime? Likely some. Were any of them assaulted by a female? Likely not.
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Since when is limited anecdotal reporting any more real than research and statistics?
Turn a blind eye if you wish, but try not to explain this away as completely justified or all men's fault:
Men Shouldn't Be Overlooked as Victims of Partner Violence -- Arehart-Treichel 42 (15): 31 -- Psychiatr News
An interesting excerpt:
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As for physical injury due to intimate partner violence, it was more likely to occur when the violence was reciprocal than nonreciprocal. And while injury was more likely when violence was perpetrated by men, in relationships with reciprocal violence it was the men who were injured more often (25 percent of the time) than were women (20 percent of the time). "This is important as violence perpetrated by women is often seen as not serious," Whitaker and his group stressed.
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 06-24-2009 at 12:55 PM..
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