I don't believe that most men are batterers. There are two groups that push the idea that they are:
1) Feminists who need to demonize all men for various reasons (for an automatic advantage in child custody and divorce settlements, and for financial support from the govt/taxpayers for feminists groups, and to intimidate men out of opposing their Marxist agenda)
2) Actual batterers who can't take personal responsibility, so they parrot the feminist line, "It's not me! It's ALL men! It's systemic!"
It's a sad philosophy (feminism) that maligns good men (the majority) who would never hurt their wives in a million years, while giving actual batterers an excuse ("It was my Y-chromosome!")
We need to both stop the violence of the bad guys, and stop the destructive feminist stereotyping ("It's all of them!") of the good guys.
I've only known two woman who was seriously battered in my entire life.
One was my aunt, who seriously attempted suicide, stayed with him for several more years, and then finally made the break.
The other was a neighbor whose husband had played such mind trips on her, that she was TERRIFIED to leave him. Absolutely terrified. I can't imagine that amount of terror. Heaven only knows if she's alive today; when he saw that she was getting close to us "neighbors", he packed the family and moved them from Texas to Florida. I often wondered if he didn't dump her on a bridge somewhere between here and there.
Perhaps I don't know the minds of men, but I really don't think men are capable of being terrorized to the extent this woman was. They might be slapped around by their wives, they might be emotionally battered by their wives, but of those who live in terror.....it's mostly women.
And while the feminazis might inflate the statistics, the men who ignore this problem aren't any better than the feminazis.