1/19

"Women don't really abuse"

If anyone says this, below are some links that you might find useful:
2/19

"Coercive Control and Domestic Violence" 2020



"When we look at empirical research, we find roughly equal numbers of men and women reporting using aggression towards a partner”

"Predominantly a form of violence against women and girls. Not correct"
4/19

References Examining Assaults by Women on Their Spouses or Male Partners: An Updated Annotated Bibliography

“This annotated bibliography describes 343 scholarly investigations (270 empirical studies and 73 reviews) demonstrating that...
7/19

"...most partner violence is mutual and that self-defense explains only a small percentage of partner violence by either men or women. The second part of the article documents seven methods that have been used to deny, conceal, and distort the evidence on gender symmetry.”
8/19

Prevalence and Characteristics of Sexual Violence, Stalking, and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization — National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, United States, 2011
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/ss/ss6308.pdf
9/19

“For 3 of the other forms of sexual violence, a majority of male victims had only female perpetrators: being made to penetrate (an estimated 82.6%), sexual coercion (an estimated 80.0%), & unwanted sexual contact (an estimated 54.7%)...
10/19

The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey 2010 – 2012 State Report

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/NISVS-StateReportBook.pdf

"The majority of male victims who were made to penetrate someone else reported only female perpetrators (78.5%)...
11/19

... Similarly, the majority of male victims of sexual coercion reported only female perpetrators (81.6%) "
12/19

Rates of Bidirectional Versus Unidirectional Intimate Partner Violence Across Samples, Sexual Orientations, and Race/Ethnicities: A Comprehensive Review

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/springer/pa/2012/00000003/00000002/art00004?crawler=true
13/19

“A second finding to emerge was that the ratio of unidirectional female-to-male compared to male-to-female IPV differed significantly among samples with higher rates of female-perpetrated unidirectional violence found in four of the five sample types considered”
14/19

The uncomfortable facts on IPV


“Overall women reported higher rates of perpetration than men”

“Women are more likely to say they hit first”

and...
15/19

... Women will often wait until their partner is asleep, intoxicated or they use a weapon to perpetrate violence”
“Patriarchy is not a strong explanation”
17/19

... Women perpetrate at least as much as men do (and some studies, around 50, show far higher prevalence of female perpetrated domestic violence by a ratio of 2:1)."
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