[Marxism] Domestic Violence...was Any statistics on corporateillegality?

["Jurriaan Bendien" <andromeda246@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, while we are on the subject:

"Very little in known about the actual number of men who are in a domestic
relationship in which they are abused or treated violently by women.  In 100
domestic violence situations approximately 40 cases involve violence by
women against men.  (...)   The impact of domestic violence is less apparent
and less likely to come to the attention of others when men are abused.  For
example, it is assumed than a man with a bruise or black eye was in a fight
with another man or was injured on the job or playing contact sports.  Even
when men do report domestic abuse and violence, most people are so
astonished men usually end up feeling like nobody believes them.

http://www.oregoncounseling.org/Handouts/DomesticViolenceMen.htm

In other words, men are much less likely to admit/report that they were hit
or kicked or threatened with agression by a woman.

Since in modern society children are still overwhelmingly looked after by
women, it is likely that an objective frequency measure would show that
the majority of violent acts against children are in fact perpetrated by
women (and by other children). But since the boundaries between legal
or permissible violence and unlawful violent acts against children are
inexact and arguable, a great deal depends on the criteria used to
measure this violence. Definitions of violence can range from verbal
aggression or slapping a child, to inflicting bodily injury or serious
mental damage. Permissible punishment, such as the occasional
slap or hiding, may become child abuse if a child is hit in this way
as a constant occurrence.

This view of things is unlikely however to be popular, since the ruling
ideology portrays women, if not as "sugar and spice and all things
nice", then at least as victims, or as the weaker sex... to be protected
by men. In addition, it is of course true that a majority of prosecuted
violent crime involves men. But prosecuted violence is only a
subset of total violence.

You often find that leftists seek to portray things as though everything
is getting worse, but in some areas at least, things are getting very much
better. That is, there is not only social regress, but also social progress.
And I think if reported violent crime in the USA, traditionally one of
the more violent societies in the world, is decreasing significantly,
that is an instance of social progress, i.e. it suggests that violent
methods are less acceptable, and that people are learning to avoid
violence more.

Jurriaan


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