In the 1995 Blue Heelers aired an episode of the show that demonstrated, rather powerfully, that both men and women could be violently abusive.
The episode was called, Breaking the Cycle, from season 2, episode 34.
Watching Blue Heelers is like travelling back in time to when Australia was more sane, more sensible, more reasonable, and...more Australian.
These days, if a promiment person said domestic violence can go both ways, they are pilloried from post to post, until they go quiet. The feminist captured media, which is often lobbied by groups that receive funding to highlight one side of the problem, quickly react to any shifting of the narrative. Our country was once much more reasonable, about many things.
I miss what our country once was. It was no utopia, ir was not perfect, but it was better, in many ways. Observable, and sometimes measurable, ways.
Highlighting one side of the problem is unjust. As P J said, "You need to keep an open mind to get to the truth."
Women are hurt, everyday.
Men are hurt, everyday.
To deny there are two sides to domestic violence is simply to lie.
John Archer's extensive research confirms what you say - IMO he was an honest and competent researcher:
ReplyDeletee.g. Sex differences in aggression between heterosexual partners: a meta-analytic review.
J Archer
Psychological bulletin 126 (5), 651 - This review has been cited more than 4000 times in the professional literature (a lot!) so it is hardly obscure:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=aWSSxkEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=aWSSxkEAAAAJ:gsN89kCJA0AC
One finding was: "Women were slightly more likely (d=–. 05) than men to use one or more acts of physical aggression and to use such acts more frequently. "
I once discussed this finding with him (as I worked in a similar field) and he was confident of this. Of course, much depends on samples and definitions as Archer makes clear; but it seems hard to deny that women being violently abusive to men in domestic situations is approximately as common as the opposite.