BitaTruble
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ORIGINAL: naughtynick You may find this link interesting. It will open up in a pdf file. www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/downloads/304/kelly.pdf Interesting review. What I found very telling were the facts presented which site 23 - 73% of violence committed by women to their spouses was retalitory in nature and that effect, IE severity of violence was washed away with some rather specious argument. To whit, severity in violence was not the purpose of the review thus giving equal weight to a slap as to an injury which landed one in the hospital. The author did state that men were 6 times more likely than women to indulge in violence which lead to severe injury which match the conclusions given by the Department of Justice. Thanks for the link. Celeste Not trying to get involved to much, but couldn't it be that generally when a man hits someone it causes more damage than when a women does that same action. I'm about 210 and slightly over 6 foot tall. If I hit a 5 foot 4" 130 pound woman she's probably going to have some damage. But if she hit me, It'd be highly unlikely it'd do more than bruise or at the very least I could subdue her, or LOL run!!! eeeek. So, really, I think it has a lot less to do with intent to injure, rather it would seem to be more about how easy it is to injure another, which I'm sure accounts for at least a large portion of the discrepancy. So, I'm sure it's true men send more women to the hospital or cause severe physical harm in spats of anger. But really, isn't it reasonable to assume, that is caused by women not being easily able to do the same to men? Generally speaking of course, I've seen a few women that were bigger than me, and we aren't talking fat either, but for 99% of the population this holds true. That point is addressed in the two sources I offered earlier. A woman is much more likely to pick up a weapon and use it, so size doesn't, really, matter in this case. ;) Intent to injure and/or lack of control have less to do with the size of the participants and more to do with the availability of the weapon. When someone is enraged, they are intent on causing injury when it gets to that point. Men don't mind getting their hands dirty and women don't mind gutting someone with a knife but even with the weapons, men still cause severe injury at a rate 6 times that of women. Celeste
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