Does this surprise you?

Question

It surprised me:

"In May 2007 the Centers for Disease Control found half of heterosexual domestic violence was reciprocal and that women committed more than 70 percent of the reciprocal violence. In fact, although men are less likely to report the violence, virtually all sociological research worldwide shows women initiate domestic violence as often as men . . . ."

Answer 1

They think throwing objects is perfectly ok.

Answer 2

Interesting. Not sure if it's true or not.. But the difference between a man abusing a woman and a woman abusing a man is that usually the latter will do less physical damage.

All domestic violence needs to be taken seriously though, and abused men need to step up and show the world that this issue is not funny or pathetic.

Answer 3

You seem to forget the difference in the degree of violence brought. Are you seriously suggesting that men are in danger of being terrible abused by women, when the exact opposite is brute reality?

Answer 4

can you provide a link to the source?
edit: you should really provide sources if you are going to make such claims. i checked the CDC website for the study you are referencing; the only study i could find from may 2007 was about the dangers of mold. hmm. and then i checked their studies on domestic violence and everything they have published indicates that women are far more likely to suffer from intimate partner violence than men. the studies that indicate this can be found at the following links:

"Each year, women experience about 4.8 million
intimate partner related physical assaults and rapes.
Men are the victims of about 2.9 million intimate
partner related physical assaults."
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/ipv_factsheet.pdf

"Approximately 1.5 million women and 834,700 men are raped and/or physically assaulted by an intimate partner each year.4 About 588,490, or 85% of victimizations by intimate partners in 2001 were against women. IPV made up 20% of all nonfatal violent crime experienced by women and 3% of the nonfatal violence against men. 1,247 women and 440 men were killed by an intimate partner in 2000."

http://www.cdc.gov/omh/Highlights/2004/HOct04.htm

Answer 5

A wise man will remember that.

But what the hey is the highly flaunted CDC doing involved in that study ? Shouldn't they be studying that flesh eating bacteria in fresh water lakes?

Answer 6

No it doesn't surprise me, sadly. I can say with experience and observations that women do indeed initiate violence knowing they can get away with it. Men rarely respond accordingly and they rarely report the perpetrator. Both the aforementioned were true in my case.

However, when strauss & his colleagues attempted to make the findings public, they received death & bomb from feminists.

Answer 7

what's the source? it's not the cdc.

there are groups trying to claim women cause 1/2 domestic violence. they use junk research that trivializes violence - like including nagging as a form of emotional abuse.

every source i've seen - credible ones - do not support this claim.

Answer 8

It doesn't suprise me in the least bit. I have always said that some one has got to keep their mouth and, or hands to themselves so that the situation is deflected before it's blown away out of control All I'd get is "why should I keep my mouth shut? I have a right to speak...." True we all have rights to speak, yet it is wiser still to zip it and paste those hands inside your pockets.

Answer 9

in this day and age nothing surprises me anymore. sure is sad though.

Answer 10

Yes it does. Wow!