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Well I'm not saying this is the right place for his frustration, but it is a bit annoying that the narrative around domestic abuse is that it's something men to do women, while in reality the statistics show us that both men and women are guilty of domestic violence at about the same rate. There are thousands of shelters for women in the US, while for men there are less than 5 scattered across the country. Men and wo…
>while in reality the statistics show us that both men and women are guilty of domestic violence at about the same rate I find that _extremely_ suspect. > In the U.S., about 31 percent of men and 37 percent of women have experienced sexual violence, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I am not disagreeing with that statistic, but it's a si…
Using Swedish data (through other countries report the same finding). Households of two men, two women, or a man and a woman all has the same rate of domestic abuse being reported to the police. This result in the strange statistical finding that a bisexual woman going from a heterosexual relationship to a homosexual relationship increases her aggression by over 200%. Similar, a bisexual man doing the same thing reduces his aggression by almost 50%. This is not checklists or polls, but rather plain crime statistics collected by police and courts.
A theory to explain this is that displacement violence in pair relationships is a equal risk for all human relationships regardless of the genders involved, but the method deployed by the aggressor is likely different depending if the aggressor has more physical strength than the victim.
Naturally we must also consider that while averages exist, people are still individuals and there are huge variation in any population.