A Step Towards Equality?

@SteelHands [quote]Courts happily prosecute whichever brings the formal charges first.[/quote]
In practice that's usually the woman because the police routinely refuse to accept male victims' complaints of female perpetrated abuse.

@Sharon Hm yes, appearancism is alive and well. Those appearances can make or break all standing prejudices by rookie authority figures. A smallerish diminuitive looking man or woman will almost always prevail in those prejudices. The heavier or stockier one, regardless which one is the habitual hitter, especially ones that are willing to self inflict or have a health issue that make bruising anywhere on the body to show his or her own "evidence" to police and courts.

My own experiences taught me this. I'm terribly regretful not to have spoken more openly since now someone near to me, actually my son, has been victimized by courts in a similar way and prevented from seeing his child almost completely. It's devastating to live through being branded the bad guy when you know you're not. It's even more painful to see someone else become so misled that they walk right into a trap like that which you know it would be absolutely ridiculously impossible to dissuade them. And now that he knows it doesn't vindicate or make me feel any better. I feel worse actually. All of it could have been avoided had I myself not allowed myself to walk into what was essentially that same circumstance.

That's why I'm so glad Mr. Depp won his lawsuit. I know exactly what happened there and don't doubt myself in the least. I can say tho that my blonde was far smaller and more beautiful then his. Lol

@Ducky A man got 18 months for one incident of abuse - https://uk.news.yahoo.com/man-grabbed-girlfriend-throat-during-050000405.html?guccounter=1 That's gives some idea of the anti-male bias in the judicial system.

@DavidT8899 I don't know that particular book but, as a paramedic who had atended several incidents involving a male victim of a female abuser and being married to a man who was frequently badly injured by his former (female) partner, I'm well aware of how prevalent female on male domestic abuse is.

@Caroline259 It is available on Amazon.Get it;read it.As I said,it's eye- opening.

@Caroline259 If a woman does that to a man,it's every but as disgusting as a man doing it to a woman.

@Funlov There's no point in speaking up... even if you do, you either get sent back or placed back in the same situation or worse.

We now have women choosing to get off the mainland before they report the abuse because they know that our overseas territories will treat them better than they would get at home.

@SW-User All the independent studies show that female on male abuse is at least as prevalent as [i]vice versa[/i]. As a paramedic, most domestic abuse incidents I've attended have involved a male victim of a female abuser. Some of that is due to the fact that it is far easier for abused women to get the police to take action before they're seriously injured. I've actually attended more incidents involving women being assaulted by other women in women's refuges than by male partners in their homes.