"30% of lesbians report having experienced sexual assault or rape by another woman (not necessarily an intimate partner) (Renzetti, 1992)"

If the broad definition now applied to DV was used and victims were encouraged to report and not discouraged by the Suseonlines of the world who have their own secondary agenda of prejudice, doubtless the study would have confirmed that, "Bisexual, transgender, lesbian, and gay people experience violence within their intimate relationships at about the same rates as heterosexuals (Waldner-Haugrud, 1997; AVP, 1992)".

What is the Greek word for a female misogynist?
Or any word for a woman that hates men?

Lol Onthebeach, you always seem to knock homosexuals in other threads, while championing the poor apparently violence -riddled lesbians and gay men in this thread. Why is that?

Of course I am aware of all victims of domestic violence, probably far more aware than you will ever be, however, at least I don't try and deny that men perpetrate more domestic violence and resulting deaths of others than any gay or female people do.
No point trying to reason with our resident misogynist though.

JF Aus, Onthebeach will answer your query with a veritable cascade of words describing women...

Suseonline, "Why is that?"

-Who knows, it is just another of your twisted fabrications.

Then you go on with the usual weasel words that you "aware of all victims of domestic violence", but you always stop short of any suggestion that all should get the same support.

That ensures that no-one outside of a women in a heterosexual relationship gets help.

Your unshakeable, irrational misandry must be served. You don't give a hoot about the victims. They are just cannon fodder for your tireless campaign against men and particularly those 'white' men you are always sledging and despise.

Come on, you blokes, you know damn well that domestic violence is overwhelmingly an act of violence perpetrated by men against women. And we know why too: because they can. It's a dreadful part of our culture, as it is in almost all cultures.

Perhaps I'm biased: our mum got a court order against our father when we were very small, over his violence towards her. We never saw him again, to our relief.

But, Suse, I'd disagree that it's a particularly heterosexual thing, more like a power thing, backed up by culture, which approved of male control over women. i.e. like in pretty much all cultures. Hence domestic violence in many, if not most, if not ALL, migrant and refugee groups, since, in most cultures, male dominance is the rule. Do you know of any cultures where it isn't ?

I don't know if homosexual relationships descend into violence, I presume so; certainly - again - in male-only homosexual relationships. I don't imagine that lesbian relationships descend to that level - not in any of the very few lesbian relationships that I have known of.

From a class point of view, or more accurately an economic point of view, DV may be more likely in poorer households where the wife is the 'housekeeper', i.e. utterly dependent financially on the 'breadwinner'. Thankfully there are fewer of those relationships than fifty or sixty years ago, except perhaps n many Muslim households. Hence the preoccupation with specifying to what extent Muslim men can beat the daylights out of their wives - only if the bruises don't show, and only when they feel like it. Ah, culture, isn't it a wonderful thing ?

And then there's the Indigenous scene .... I remember when the 'community' chairman beat his wife up with a rifle butt, broke both her arms. Otherwise not a bad bloke. No, not really.

Joe

While extra $$$$ funding for more womens' refuges for victims is somewhat positive it is effectively only putting bandaids on the problem. If compulsory 're-education' of all perpetrators by court-ordered funded mandatory programs when incarcerated for a minimum of 6 months we may see some real solutions.