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Originally Posted by Ignorant
Women beating men happens so much that I don't think you can minimize it by calling it "the exception" any longer. And it often goes unreported, because what man with any attachment to gender roles and expectations, would admit to being beaten by his wife or girlfriend?
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women abusing men IS the exception in most relationships. hell...men abusing women is the exception too as only 1/4 relationships involve such abuse.
but when the denominator is "relationships where one member is abused", the percentage of men being abused by women is still less than 50% (FAR less by any account) making it the "exeption" in the strictest sense.
and you're 110% right about underreported cases (though, of course, women underreport abuse by men for different reasons) of women abusing men. it's a prime example of how the perpetuation of traditional gender roles and expectations need to be examined to end suffering by so many men.