| jason1637 said:
7. Not true. |
I think you are both wrong on domestic abuse. Domestic abuse simply isn't a gender problem, men and women are about equally affected by it (the total number of women being victims is slightly higher - roughly 55 / 45 - but men are more likely to be severely hurt). If you read an article on Huffington Post or something about this, just google the studies behind the numbers. Basically, what these outlets (unfortunately) do is look at the numbers, see roughly a 50/50 split and then pour some assumptions onto them like "women only hit men to defend themselves", so they subtract a rather arbitrary percentage of assaults by females. I know this sounds harsh but that's what they do. For example, Erin Pizzey, the woman who built the first women's shelter, is very anti-feminist these days because she says it's a lie that domestic violence is a gender issue and that most women in her shelters admitted to beating their husbands just as much as they beat them. Just wanted to point this out. (By the way, if this was a thread about social security or health care I'd list sources to show that republican / conservative arguments are often constructed in this way, too. Both sides like to skew the statistics in their favor.)
