I Hate People Who Deny Domestic Violence Against Men Exists

@NankerPhelge All the independent academic studies of domestic abuse have found that female on male abuse is at least as prevalent as male on female. The problem is that abused men are actively discouraged from reporting it. Even when they do. the police routinely refuse to accept their reports and take action against the female abusers. Another problem is that abused men rarely have anywhere to flee with their children. If they do try to save themselves, they're often forced to leave their children behind at the risk of them becoming targets for the abuse. What loving father would want to do that?

The claim that it's almost exclusively male on female is just propaganda spread by misandrist "women's groups" seeking superior rights for women.

@NankerPhelge As a paramedic I get called to about twice as many domestic incidents involving a male victim of a female abuser as vice versa. There are several reasons for that: women tend to use weapons more; the police will step in before a woman is injured; women have somewhere to flee with their children but men have to stay with the abuser to try to protect their children from her.

Overall, as Sharon points out, all the academic studies have found domestic abuse is approximately 50:50 but female on male abuse is both under-reported and under-recorded.

@Caroline259 I believe you do have a valid point there, Caroline. I'm not doubting you, I'm just going on what I already know.

@NankerPhelge That's all any of us can do. The academic studies are more accurate as they involve a larger and more random sample. In my experience, there appears to be more female on male abuse but that's mostly due to the type of incidents I'm more likely to know about.

@Caroline259 Maybe it's more like that in the area where you live, Caroline. I know of one or two high-profile cases where the perpetrator was a woman and the victim was a man. These two, for example:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/caught-out-by-her-own-charade-of-all-too-public-grief-1253227.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580205/30-years-in-jail-for-anti-freeze-poisoning-wife.html

@NankerPhelge I don't think the ratio varies much across the country.

I tend to only get called to the more serious incidents. I'm not likely to know if a man slaps his wife but I might get called out if a woman stabs her husband.