If you talk to almost any woman long enough, you’ll uncover an incident of violence (physical or emotional) somewhere in her past. While men are victims of violence just as often, the aggressors of women are most often male. It comes as no surprise then that the new study from Statistics Canada reveals that the majority of dating violence victims are female.
While teenage girls experienced 10 times as much violence as boys their age, a Statistics Canada study released Tuesday says that rates of police-reported dating violence are highest for those in their 30s. Between 2004 and 2008, rates of reported violence rose 40 per cent for women and 47 per cent for men. Women were victims of dating violence 80 per cent of the time, with a majority of incidents occurring after the relationship ended.
Unfortunately, under-reporting may mean the actual rates are much higher.
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Another good reason to question the desirablity of “dating” as a social practice. And, by the way, I have never experienced violence at the hands of a man (or boy). So, either I am a statistical anomaly or I define “violence” less broadly than the average woman.
There’s no such thing as emotional violence. Emotional abuse, yes, certainly, and I’m not about to imply that emotional abuse is OK, because it’s not. But “violence” means something. Someone had the idea a few years back of broadening the definition of violence against women to include as much as possible so that they could make out that the problem of women being beaten is far more widespread than it really is — and therefore that most men beat up women. The statistic we’re given in the UK these days is that 1 in 3 women is a victim of domestic violence. Look into the source of the statistics and you discover that one of the events that gets counted as “domestic violence” is “harsh words”. This is just out-and-out lying, and exactly the sort of thing this site usually condemns.