MALE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON BBC'S WOMEN'S HOUR

On Thursday, there was a debate on Radio 4's Women's Hour about male victims of domestic violence. Ian McNicholl was on as was Mark Brooks from the ManKind Initiative.

Comments

[John Kimble]

Here's the iPLayer link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00m0tzm/Womans_Hour_20_08_2009/

(why on earth couldn't they link to that from the webpage? no one uses realplayer these days)

[John Kimble]

Just listening to it now.

Most ridiculous part so far is at 9mins45 in where the "researcher" states "there's no evidence that men are less likely to report being abused"!

He was almost believable up until then, but clearly just a self-loathing idiot.

[John Kimble]

Typical sexist bbc Woman's hour rubbish really. They spend an age highlighting how many men supposedly lie about being dv victims, without evening acknowledging or hinting at the scale of the problem of false claims by women - both by female perpetrators and by females in custody battles.

[Groan]

Yes clearly sexist and full marks to MANKIND for actually sticking with this issue. There is a lot of evidence from Ireland (north and south) and Wales and England.
most clearly sexist is the constant "screening" of men when we are told that this "blames the victim" if a similar approach is adopted for women.

[CS]

they had a news item on BBC how they are going to come down harder on perpetrators of DV. It was totally "women are victims" apart from one sentence "men can be victims too", it was added almost as an afterthought.

[JP2]

There is a lot of domestic violence by both men and women.

If I were to give the authorities and women one bit of advice that would reduce injuries to women it has to be this:

Do not assume that it is safe for you as a woman to strike the first blow, because the very sense that men and women are equal may well lead to the man responding to this violence with violence.

As most men are more powerful than their spouse, the woman is likely to come off worst.

This is not to justify the male violence, but women would do well to recognise that they are no more entitled to attack men than the other way round.

[Groan]

An interesting Poll and article on Asylum. http://www.asylum.co.uk/2009/06/23/have-you-ever-been-hit-by-a-girl/

Have a vote

[PB]

On two occasions i have witnessed incidents of domestic violence where the woman was clearly the perpetrator.On both occasions i called the police.As soon as the police arrived on the first occasion the woman turned on the waterworks and the police sought to arrest the man.When myself and two female witnesses reminded the police the man was actually the victim they looked at us as though we were mad.The man had cuts on his face where the woman had scratched and hit him and yet the police still assumed he was the perpetrator.
On the second incident when i called the police the officer told me that if a woman was being assaulted they would come straight away.When i told them it was the woman who was the perpetrator the officer said we would have to wait until officers were available.It clearly wasn,t a priority .
100 women die every year beacause of domestic violence.But so do around 40 men and 80 children.And women are responsible for nearly all the adult male deaths and most of the child deaths.Yet the primary focus on domestic violence is always on the 100 adult female deaths.And all the evidence showing the extent to which women subject their male and female partners and children to non-fatal domestic violence is usually ignored,
I believe that men and women are equally responsible for domestic violence.And that one day hardline feminist dictates must be cast aside so this issue can be effectively tackled once and for all.