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CATHY YOUNG: Tiger Woods, Gender & Domestic Violence. ?To suggest that cultural complacency toward?

By Glenn Reynolds

CATHY YOUNG: Tiger Woods, Gender & Domestic Violence. “To suggest that cultural complacency toward female-on-male violence should extend not only to slapping and shoving but to acts capable of causing serious injury is not only bizarre but offensive. . . . A review of hundreds of studies, published in 2000 by British psychologist John Archer of the University of Central Lancashire, found that women are as likely to initiate partner violence as men and that male victims account for a third of domestic violence injuries. But Rosin ignores this vast research, much of it done by women, in favor of a single ‘expert’ on ‘the myth of the battered husband syndrome’: Jack Straton, an assistant professor of University Studies at Portland State University whose Ph.D. is in quantum physics and whose background in domestic violence is that of a feminist activist, not a scholar.” (Via Dr. Helen).

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on December 04, 2009 (boomark / email).