Why do you think the truth about DV is so violently suppressed?

"When initial evidence of the gender equality of intimate violence emerged in the work of Straus et al. (1980), the authors faced not only criticism but also a barrage of abuse, falsehoods and threats from women's advocates that is now well documented (Gelles, 1994; Luccal, 1995; McNeeley, Cook, & Torres, 2001; Straus, 1993). Similarly, when attempting to resurrect the argument, McNeeley (see McNeeley & Robinson-Simpson, 1987) also faced hostility and abuse. Robinson-Simpson was allegedly an oppressed female who had been duped by a malevolent misguided male (McNeeley, Cook and Torres, 2001). As a result, according to Fillion (1997):





Currently, findings on all types of female physical and sexual


aggression are being suppressed; academics who do publish their


research are subjected to bitter attacks and outright vilification


from some colleagues and activists, and others note the hostile


climate and carefully omit all data on female perpetrators from


their published reports. (pp. 229-230)





This suggests that some twenty years of silencing had occurred beginning with publications in the mid- to late-1970s."



Its a propaganda tool used by feminism to demonise heterosexual men.








Official figures show that mothers are doing more child abuse than any other group, given that abusers create more abusers we can safely say that feminism isn't interested in stopping the problem, if anything its adding fuel to the fire.




It is suppressed because if it came into common knowledge feminism would come to an end.





Women would lose the special privileges they have gained and would have to be treated the same as men are.





You see they want to be thought of as equals {actually as superiors} but they do not want to be treated as equals.{because being treated like a man would suck for them}





They absolutely must suppress any information that does not cast them as victims or they will be expected to earn respect and take care of themselves.




Feminists want to portray men as the abuser and women as the only victim. That's why they pushed for law like the VAWA.




They deem it a necessary evil.




source?


women are evil 101?





now you're gonna say that women be raping men just as much as men rape women.........




The mid to late 70's is when enough men started admitting they were victims of DV that the information COULD be suppressed. I don't know about the official suppression, but I know the men in my own personal life still suffer mightily from the stigma of a guy admitting that a woman (aka wife, mother or sister) is beating them up. This stigma has been in place for allot longer than twenty years. So have the rates of abusive women. You can't help a person who refuses to admit they have been victimized. I fully agree that we should be working on ways to make it easier for men who are trapped in the victim end of this vicious cycle. I also agree that there is more the official and academic communities could be doing to make it easier for them.