Study: Women, Men Equally Violent With Partners-When Only Partner Is Violent, It's Usually The Woman

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[chance33_98]

Study: Women, Men Equally Violent With Partners
When Only Partner Is Violent, It's Usually The Woman
Posted: 4:18 p.m. EDT July 30, 2002

DURHAM, N.H.-- A study by the University of New Hampshire of college students says women are as violent as men toward their partners. The Family Research Laboratory study suggests that when only one partner is violent, it is twice as likely to be the woman.

The survey questioned 1,446 students from: the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad in Juarez, Mexico; University of Texas at El Paso; Texas Tech; and UNH.

Study author Murray Straus says the findings suggest that programs and policies aimed at preventing intimate partner violence by some women are crucial.

Straus was offering details Tuesday in Montreal at the 15th World Meeting of the International Society for Research on Aggression.

But the findings were disputed by the director of Portsmouth, N.H.-based Sexual Assault Support Services.

The executive director says her first take, after reading this, is that it seems like an oversimplified response to a complex problem.

[chance33_98]

Ping a ling!

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

In general, women are encouraged by liberal society to be violent toward men. Men are reluctant to report such behavior, and women are rewarded with juicy divorce settlements. If you subsidize any behavior you get more of it. This finding is no surprise.

[TomServo]

A fun thread in bloom. ;-)

[chance33_98]

I am sure NOW will have some interesting spin - including blaming men for making the women do it.

[alpowolf]

The executive director says her first take, after reading this, is that it seems like an oversimplified response to a complex problem

Bet she wouldn't say that if the study had "shown" that it's always the man's fault.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

If you want to have fun with a group of women, tell them the story about the lady who hit her husband with the car after he got caught red-handed cheating on her. You're guaranteed to hear, "That bastard deserved it, too!" Listen to them talk about how the SOB deserved it, too bad he didn't die, she should have parked the car on him, etc. Egg them on. Let them talk about all the terrible things that should happen to the guy.

Then tell them, "You know what? I think women who cheat should be beaten down and run over with the car, too. When a woman cheats, the domestic violence laws should not apply." The women who hear this will either sit dumbstruck or get angry.

This is my version of sensitivity training.

[chance33_98]

This is my version of sensitivity training.

You should patent it and see if we can get it into the schools and workplaces...

[Paul Atreides]

Just look at violence between the sexes on television; it is considered funny for a man to be hit in the groin by a woman. Can you imagine the outcry if a skit involved a man punching a woman in the breasts?

[NorseWood]

From my expereince, the violent woman will also be violent with her children. Shame.

[Paul Atreides]

What I never understand is how people, of both sexes, will marry a violent person, knowing what they are like, and then expect some therapist, or judge, to clean up the mess.

[crystalk]

That's how girls are in Texas--

That's what that little judge said!

That's just how girls are in Texas,

But a man lay cold and dead!

[crystalk]

But the man DID die! His funeral was yesterday.

[Violette]

Sorry, but I think this is bogus. If this were true, then the number of female inmates on death row compared to men would be much higher. Violence doesn't just appear in relationships. men are much more aggressive than women.

[Violette]

What I never understand is how people, of both sexes, will marry a violent person

These characteristics are usually buried at the onset of the relationship and come out in gradual doses. People don't initally get involved with someone who is violent at the onset.

Ever heard the phrase a wolf in sheep's clothing?

[RobRoy]

The real problem is that if my wife were to attack me with her hands, there's not much she can do to really hurt me, firm grip on the groin area excepted.

OTOH, if I were to attack her with my bare hands, it would be very easy for me to inflict painful harm at my whim and follow up simply and easily with a clean kill.

When men do it, there is much more risk of serious injury.

Of course everything I said is a generalization, like when I say, generally speaking, men are larger than women...

[RobRoy]

>>men are much more aggressive than women.<<

Physically, yes...

[alpowolf]

How many of a given group is on death row is partially dependent on who prosecutors decide to prosecute, how juries rule, etc.

Women more often get the benefit of the doubt.

[Paul Atreides]

I have heard of people, knowing full well their partner had a violent temper, will go on to marry that person, thinking the person can be "changed."

Ever heard of denial?

[chance33_98]

Sorry, but I think this is bogus. If this were true, then the number of female inmates on death row compared to men would be much higher. Violence doesn't just appear in relationships. men are much more aggressive than women.

They did not discuss the level of violence - throwing plates or beatings, I have known a lot of women who would slap a man or throw something at him, but not take a ball bat to them :)

I watched a movie last night where a woman slapped a man in the face for the way he propositioned her, had a man slapped the woman he would be in jail. I think most all think the violence is wrong, the double standard is troublesome though...