No kidding? Really?

It seems Professor Murray Straus has come to the same conclusions as Erin Pizzy. This is the sort of thing I was taught in California as a volunteer working in Welfare to Work programs.

Straus, co-director of the Family Research Lab at the University of New Hampshire, recently completed an international study on partner violence among university students. His queries of more than 13,600 students revealed that the most common instance of partner violence is mutual abuse.

The second most common situation of partner violence is when the female is the perpetrator against the male, he said. This leaves the reverse - when males abuse females - to be the least common in practice, although the most common in publicity.

"I have a long-term prevention goal that I hope my research will make a contribution to," Murray said prior to the meeting at which he was asked to testify. He added that it's not enough to provide services for the battered, and that the solution is to stop the aggressive behavior in the first place.

He said it's possible to stop half of abuse by making it as reprehensible for a woman to slap a man as it for a man to hit a woman.

"If we want men to stop it," he said. "Women have to stop it also."

(from Fosters Daily Democrat, Wednesday, July 5, 2006. " Researcher calls for women to stop abusing men")

Now, if we can just get the occassional Australian politician or judge to read a little, things might clean up nicely.
Fat chance.

Here's a little more reading for Mr Hulls and his "best people I know".

This article amounts to nothing more than ideological propaganda.

The article states, "Recognize that abuse is a male problem, not a female problem. Generally, women don't attack their partners - men do. Female-perpetrated violence against other people constitutes a tiny fraction of the total. And men and boys physically, mentally, verbally and sexually assault other men and boys, as well as women."

This comment defies long-established facts as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 150 scholarly studies spanning two decades and countless science-based studies. Moreover, the complete reverse is the truth.

The CDC's "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" from May 19, 2006, reported that high school girls physically attacked their boyfriends at an almost nearly identical rate as high school boys have attacked their girlfriends.

(from "The other side of the abuse story" by Terri Lnn Tersak | Research Triangle Park, N.C.)

Y'all gettin the message yet? Them cute li'l honeys is playin' y'all fer fools.
And a little anecdotal research tells me most of them aren't even "liberated". They just know you'll buy their lies. In other words, they know a good sucker when they see one.

Most of these women aren't concerned with what's best for the children. That's just your excuse for laziness and ignorance. (Laziness and ignorance makes prejudice, they say in the South.)
They just want the money.