Letters to the Editor
tooktheredpill
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Women often the Aggressors
[Read the article: Why aren't boys allowed to be victims?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most of the calls from women made to domestic violence services every year come not from women in need of protection, but from women who are actively aggressing against their male partners. As such, the domestic violence figures reflect mostly the amount of violence being directed at men
No-one actually knows the true figures for domestic violence. The official figures are virtually meaningless in that they derive mostly from incidents that would paint us all as 'domestically violent'.
The legal reality, however, is that domestic violence is now largely defined by the woman's attitude to whatever she claims to be experiencing at the time. And the problem with this - apart from the sheer unfairness of it all from the point of view of the man - is that her attitude is not something that is objectively definable, and neither is it 'fixed' - in the sense that a woman's attitudes can change and fluctuate almost as much as the wind. Indeed, in the USA, some 20 million women experience clinically severe emotional disturbances every single month through PMS, and about 5 million have significant personality disorders.