Guerilla said:
Lil devils x said:
That was not a single source.. the Justice department, SPLC AND the CDC debunked that claim. 11.5% is not greater than 27.3% and EVEN then, the majority of the 11.5% has male perpetrators.
Obnoxious sexist assumption? How many of these places have you been in? I have volunteered my services repeatedly, these guys sometimes have been wheeled in to visit me by paramedics...
http://sfist.com/2012/02/07/man_murdered_in_soma_homeless_shelt.php
http://www.wgme.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/skowhegan-man-arrested-alleged-assault-at-homeless-shelter-27419.shtml#.VV2q309VhHw
http://www.thefix.com/content/drugs-violence-nj-halfway90273
http://www.wect.com/story/4907272/homeless-shelter-robbed
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/03/man_staying_at_homeless_shelte.html
http://www.10news.com/news/man-at-homeless-shelter-punched-robbed
http://www.channel3000.com/news/Worker-beaten-at-homeless-shelter/30371046
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-10-ohio-homeless-shelter-attack_N.htm
to name a few.
OF course " women can be violent" however, men are MUCH more violent. Men attack both men and women much more than women attack men or women.
" Males committed the vast majority of homicides in the United States at that time, representing 90.5% of the total number of offenders." THINK about the number for a second... more than 90% Over 90% of homicides were carried out by males.. That isn't just a little more..
The DOJ and other organizations talk about reported cases. The studies are about what really going on in relationships. There have been many other studies that confirm that men don't report abuse. I'm getting really tired of repeating the same info, you're purposely ignoring the data.
Also the data on reported homicides has nothing to do with relationships since the the overwhelming majority of homicide victims are men. This is a completely different issue that has more to do with men being genetically predisposed to fight (something that I'm sure you people "forget" when you comment on superhero and action movies not having enough female characters but you sure don't when you demonize men using homicide statistics).
It isn't a different issue at all and has EVERYTHING to do with relationships. Lets go to just the data on relationships... Most homicide victims are men, however,
most intimate partner victims are FEMALE. It doesn't " demonize men" to look at the homicide statistics, that is just looking at the facts. If we want to stop this, we have to address this very serious issue not pretend like we cannot look at it for what it is because you think that will demonize men. We don;t need to sugar coat this to resolve it, that does nothing to help stop it from happening, and I would like to think that is our ultimate goal is to reduce the numbers of people this happens to. The purpose of the "Battered women's shelter"s
IS to prevent homicides by intimate partners. That is why they exist. So of course we have to address the issue not tip toe around it.
"Where the victim/offender relationship was known, female murder victims were almost 6 times more likely than male murder victims to have been killed by an intimate (42% vs 7%)."
http://opdv.ny.gov/statistics/nationaldvdata/intparthom.html
Men are more likely to be killed by a male acquaintance than an intimate partner.
"56% of male murder victims were killed by an acquaintance; another 25% were murdered by a stranger. The percentage of males killed by an intimate fell from 10% in 1980 to 5% in 2008, a 53% drop."
There are MANY studies women do not report abuse as well, not reporting abuse happens with BOTH men AND
WOMEN.
For example:
"The current study found that 90 percent of women who had encountered the criminal legal system for previous intimate partner abuse victimization's did not contact the police for some or all recurrences."
http://mysite.du.edu/~adeprinc/goverweltonetal2013.pdf
http://jech.bmj.com/content/58/7/536.full
Women Afraid to Report Domestic Abuse
https://www.rosebrooks.org/news-holiday-violence.html
Most young women, girls in US don?t report sexual abuse, believe it is part of life
http://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2014/04/16/young-women-girls-us-dont-report-sexual-abuse-believe-part-life/