New Zealand Equality Education Foundation

(incorporating the International Ex-Fetus Association)

Violent Kiwi Women

by Tom Miller and Peter Zohrab 2006

In New Zealand, women are nearly 3 times more likely than men to be the sole perpetrators of dating violence. The report by Dr. Murray Straus (University of New Hampshire) showing women commit more dating violence (world-wide) than men do is at: http://pubpages.unh.edu/%7Emas2/ID41E2.pdf

Dr. Straus also says that, in the majority of cases, mutual violence occurs because the women continually assault the men until they finally attack back and make it mutual at that point -- see http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/06042006/news/106166.htm Of course, women, at that point, can phone the police and get the men arrested for domestic violence. That is a result of the Women's Movement, with its accomplices in the media and universities, having got Society to accept that domestic violence is a "Women's Issue".

The Women's Movement has trained women to report violence by males, but there has been no corresponding effort to get men to report violence by women. In fact, New Zealand men have been trained to ignore female violence -- blogger David Farrar, for example, talks openly of having received lots of bruises after having told females something they did not want to hear. He considers it would be incompatible with his masculinity for him to take those assaults by females seriously. Not only is it sexist and chivalrous to judge female violence by a separate standard -- it is an attitude which could lead to serious male violence on a female if, after putting up with repeated female violence, the male finally "snaps". It is also important to note that David Farrar used to work in a Cabinet Minister's office, which is an indication of the mentality of males who are allowed to get into positions of power nowadays.

Scientific and social issues should not be captured by social and political movements in free and democratic societies. If they are so captured, then the societies involved are not really free and democratic. They are totalitarian societies, ripe for violent upheaval.

Also note that 71 percent of those interviewed for the study were women, and 29% were men. Most of these college women were from the social sciences, indicating that this study has more validity than ever since it is mostly women (and especially feminists) telling on themselves for being the most violent ones in relationships. They state that it's rarely in self defense but for many reasons, just like it is for men -- both sexes use violence for power and control reasons sometimes. Dr. Straus says the studies show that women do this even more often than men do.

Straus' bottom line is that violence BY women needs equal attention as violence by men, and that our methods of treating and preventing violence must be radically amended in order to stop facilitating violence as the system now does.

 

Last Update: 3 July 2006