<The only evidence I go by are the undeniable crime statistics that show that women are by <far the most likely to be more seriously injured and/or die in DOMESTIC violence encounters <than men are.
<Posted by Suseonline, Thursday, 12 June 2014 1:10:03 AM

There have been recent cases where women who kill their partners are found not guilty.

There is no denying what Suzie writes, but this is the extreme end of the paradigm defined as domestic violence.

The sad fact is locking up perpetrators does not reduce the incidence, whilst prevention is the aim, nobody is game enough to really look too deeply into how situations eventually escalate to physical violence and injury.

"The strongest predictor of physical violence is one party is an emotional abuser" I saw a quote similar to this once, but have not been able to locate it since.

How many of us have partook or witnessed where a victim is selected and had their emotional buttons pushed, being teased or provoked by verbal abuse until they finally 'crack it'.

Then the bullies sit back a plead innocence whilst the victim gets the blame.

Why are we being sold the story that men are more violent than women?

Why because it means some women can get away with premeditated murder, by claiming "he beat me"?

Why, because it makes it easier for the woman to get the house, & all the money in a breakup.

If men are more violent, why is it we hear reports of women cutting a mans penis off when he was asleep, but we don't hear of men cutting women's breasts off, or filling her vagina up with wet cement?

Phanto,Hasbeen,Killarney correct in what you write, Susieonline needs to follow many women home to know how violent they are to the men they married, manipulation is a game mainly played by women, even Susieonline comes across as manipulative in her outlook on domestic violence.
War is created by men at the top but not necessarily so, Thatcher & also Gillard went along with violence when they listen to the rantings of people like Reagon or Obama , war mad, ordinary men do not want to go and kill people but are made to do so by Government leaders, conscription for women to kill would be the same as for men, they could do the same, but it is the men called upon to do the killing whether they like it or not, having been taught myself how to do just that, not my idea at all, we have a Governor General whose main aim in life was to kill, and then be decorated for the act of killing.
Women are violent creatures the same as men, men being what they are do not report to authorities that a woman has tried to kill them, take the case of arsenic poisoning to a husband a few years ago, then she denied she never did such a thing , but found guilty
You are wrong Susieonline, women can be as violent as men

Hi there SUSEONLINE...

Notwithstanding the interesting comments attributed from HASBEEN, who's essentially quite correct in what he says. Regrettably, from my experience it is the male who's likely to be much more violent in the domestic scene, than the female.

As I stated in my earlier thread, 'it takes two hands to clap' ! Often there's a trigger that provokes the male into violence, and unfortunately no matter the degree of provocation, if a male assaults a female, provocation is no defence in law. Without even mentioning that quaint moral imperative; 'a man should never strike a lady' ? Still our enlightened society seems to have very little truck with such twee, standards of virtue and gentlemanly standards of conduct towards women ?

In conclusion, I refer to OJNAB comments, inter alia, you state '...women can be as violent as men....' ? Of course they can, in fact even more so in some instances. The fact is, overwhelmingly there are many more assaults occasioned against women, than that which have been occasioned against men. An indisputable fact unfortunately.

O sung,
It's not a "fact" at all:
http://goo.gl/grzo5k
The only argument here is between people who believe that violence against women is a more important issue than violence against men.
Everyone knows that men and women are equally violent but look at the incarceration rates:
http://goo.gl/BC4Cyn
Men are more likely to go to jail than women, even when the charge is the same and women are treated more leniently by courts, here's an extreme example from overseas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyvIif2YL9o
If you don't want to sit through the rather tedious commentary I'll tell you how it ends, the woman is acquitted of all charges even though the video shows she tried to cut the throat of a Police officer and actually succeeded in wounding him. The commentator makes an interesting point at the end, a man in that scenario would be doing 20 years for attempted murder, more than likely he'd have been shot dead either by the victim or by the responding officers.

Ok JAY OF MELBOURNE...I give up ! You can't beat Stats !