Maybe its the fact that a lot of men don't want to admit they let their woman abuse them? Machoist problem.

I would think that most men are embarrassed to say that they are afraid of violence.

Violence from women towards men? Oh please. I've been hit a few times by females. They can't even throw a punch.

Most violence toward men involve issues that have had their turn through society's filter. Domestic violence and such are things that were considered legally acceptable only one or two generations ago. We hear so much about it because of the injustice women suffered, and the moral obligation to take away the patterns that make it so common.

While I agree that there are some women who dish out violence towards me, by far the overwhelming amount of domestic violence goes the other way. violence is all about power, and, like it or not, men are, on the whole, much more physically powerful than women. Over history, many more men have used violence towards women than the other way around. Women have mostly resorted to either using other men to take their revenge, or else to use their mouths. WOmen are very good at verbal abuse, and the stereotype of the henpecked husband comes from this. There is also the other angle: that men, if they are a victim of physical violence from a woman, are loathe to admit it, for fear of being mocked for lack of "manhood". The incidence of female to male violence, therefore,could be larger than we would like to admit, but goes unreported. However, I will still maintain that the overwhelming physical violence throughout all human societies is male to female.

I think that it is not discussed as much for several reasons and none of them are all that good. One of them is male ego, it can be embarassing for a man to admit that he is abused by a woman since women are often considered to be the "weaker" sex and he might be seen as a wuss. Another one is that just as most men that are abusive dont like to admit it, abusive women are also ashamed (as they should be) of their actions. My husband was physically abused by his first wife. If he said something she didnt like she would bite him leaving bloody teeth marks, he has scars from it all over his arms and back. She has split his head open with a Makita drill, stabbed him with broken glass, tried to run him down with her car, broken his nose and more. He was brought up not to hit women so he did little more than try to get away or push her off him. She even gave his mother a black eye. He didnt want to seem unmanly so he attempted to keep it secret. No matter who is abusing who it is devestating to the abused and everybody in the family and should be given equal importance.

This is a pet topic of mine... I've got alot to say about it and will do so but in the morning so stay tuned (hopefully I remember to do so)... Okay. so here we go... I did a research paper on this very topic. I'm currently working hard to pay off a stupidly expensive house, but when I finish doing that, I want to start up a support group for male victims of domestic violence because I feel that they're not taken seriously enough and we as a society downplay violence to them - even in the media, it's funny when a man gets kicked in the nuts or whacked in the nuts by a little kid with a baseball bat etc... OKay, so sometimes it seems funny but if that was violence against women, no-one would be laughing. When I spoke to my local hospital and police about the topic, I was told that they both acknowledged that they do sight male victims of DV but that as the males don't admit to it, they don't push it. Now, in Australia we have a law that says that if the police get called to a domestic violence situation, they must act, regardless of whether the victim wants to have charges laid or not. This law, although it's meant to apply also to men as victims, often doesn't. It's embarassing for males to feel as they're somehow so inadequate that they're targets of abuse and violence by females (and even by other males). In the same way, violence in gay relationships isn't taken as seriously - it's a 'lover's tiff' it gets played down as 'rough play' etc. But it shouldn't be. A few years ago, these were the attidues that prevailed in relation to women as victims. So why is it good enough to acknowledge the rights of women not to be victims and not men? We have a campaign running in the media at the moment that is the "To Violence Against Women, Australia Says No" and alternately titled "Say No To Violence Against Women". I agree, we should say no to violence against women. More relevantly however it shouldn't just be violence against women and if I had the time and money, I'd quit my job and campaign hard to have that changed to "To Violence Against ANYONE, Australia Says No" and "Say No To Violence Against Anyone" or something far more eloquently crafted. Anyway, I still have more to say about this but as (quite clearly) I could go on about this forever, but our computers are being shut down for some reason or the other, I do need to go and allow the IT person currently glaring holes into the back of my head, to do their job.

Why can't both sexes respect each other? Aside from our respective genders we are all human beings with the same capacity to feel pain, frustration, and misery. It is one of the great tragedies of humanity.

I think it's because whether we like it or not, women, on average are just not as strong as men are. So men feel the need to protect the women - but women feel the need to care for men. And men feel that other men should be able to handle themselves if they're "masculine" enough. really, I think it's subconscious bias, and not at all fair. Personally, I feel the need to protect everyone regardless of gender, and if it came to a fight, my husband would probably let me fight and him protect our daughter because I'm the one who is a LOT more trained. But the social stereotypes are hard to shake, and I think the only way to get over them is to force the issue. Good for making a post like this.

Well, violence toward women is usually intimate violence, whereas violence toward men is usually something between men. This is NOT to say that women don't get randomly raped by strangers, because it does sometimes happen, nor is it to say that men never get beaten by their wives/mothers/etc because they DO. Nor am I saying that those scenarios are somehow better than a man beating his wife. But men being violent to female partners is a HELL of a lot more common than the other way around, and usually 'violence against women' refers to sexual assault/domestic abuse - that is, things that have to do SPECIFICALLY with their being female.

Firstly, more than 2/3 domestic violence was commit by men. Secondly, violence from a woman often involves verbal abuse and slight physical attack. But if the man commit violence, the woman victim often end up being raped, killed, and beaten. These are all long-term sever physical and mental damages. Most women can never trust men (or anyone), and recall the nightmare every hour for years (even all life). Not just their happiness gone forever, many female victims lost their embitions for career, and the hope of having a happy family.

Violence towards MEN highlighted to the same degree. Really? What MONSTROSITIES are committed to girls/women every day...

IT IS THE KIDS. Really this discussion makes me want to scream. You're all adults deemed capable of taking care of yourselves. You entered into the relationship no-one forced you. Violence is wrong is a basic theme of our society. The police are not your parents, as adults you're supposed to look after yourselves. You don't like your partners behaviour then get out and get another partner or live on your own. But it ain't that easy for the kids and you're too selfish and hung up on you're own needs to even give them a thought. SHAME ON YOU