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RedMagic1 -> RE: Why do men treat women like sex objects? (4/14/2014 6:37:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: StrictlyADomina
So anything put out by the "government" is not valid and and submissions written by random people are legitimate? Um, no, that's not accurate. How about this from 2010 by the National Center for Victims of Crime? "At some point during their lifetime, 36 percent of women—or approximately 42.4 million—were victims of rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner." The source is "Michelle Black et al., The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2010 Summary Report, (Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011), 39, accessed September 27, 2012, http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/NISVS_Report2010-a.pdf."
Current enough?
Sure. Your link is broken, but this link works.
http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdf
If you compare Tables 4.9 and 4.10, which summarize "Prevalence of Psychological Aggression by an Intimate Partner," you'll see that women are victims 48.4% of the time, while men are victims 48.8% of the time, over a lifetime. If you compare Tables 4.7 and 4.8, you'll see there's only a 5% difference between the rate of women and men being "slapped, pushed or shoved."
Where the gender differences arise is in the physical severity of the violence, not the frequency of the violence, nor in who is more likely to instigate the violence. Men and women are about equally likely to hit first, or to isolate their partner so they can't see their friends and family anymore. But men are much more likely to kill, or to perform a murder/suicide. That's a small percentage of DV cases, but if it bleeds it leads, so it makes big news when it happens. As a result, I think most people believe men are far more likely to engage in DV than women. That's a perception contrary to the facts as they are currently understood.
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