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Originally Posted by longsuffering
As Troutman pointed out, based on newspaper reports, the level of violence by men against women outpaces the level of violence by women against men. If you don't know what I mean, a man beating his wife to a bloody pulp is not equivalent to a woman slapping a man across the face.
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This is something that I had pointed out earlier I think. The metrics used which observe equivalent domestic violence levels often remove everything but the concept of violence, including situation and level, by virtue of the system they used.
A woman who slaps a man if he is trying to kick their son (and he leaves after getting slapped) is considered the offender and the sole actor in the domestic violence metric used in the earlier mentioned annotated bibliography. Furthermore, if a woman beats a man within an inch of his life is measured the same as her slapping him.