In an article for the Independent last week (link) Erin Pizzey outlined a questionnaire that she had created asking female perpetrators of domestic violence against men to speak about their experiences. It is featured at ifemininezone (link), a feminist on-line magazine that is gender neutral (i.e. it does not attack men and actually as a mens section)
Erin is a pioneer when it comes to domestic abuse, having set up the first refuge in the UK in the 1970S. Since then though, she has been an avowed campaigner for male victims and wrote this renowned paper on it (link). She is also a patron of The Mankind Initiative, a charity that helps male victims.
The tide is turning, albeit slowly, where the media are starting to turn the spotlight onto male victims. The interesting angle is that it is women who are having the most success in raising this issue then men.
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