Here's an interesting question for the group.
Hypothetical Situation: Let's say a football player is out-of-the-closet gay. Now, let's say he lives with his partner, and they break up, among accusations of the football player abusing his partner.
Do you think the media latches onto it? or does it even make the news? Do you think Erin Moylan makes a speech about it on the Footy Show?
The big thing about male/female violence is the perceived power imbalance. Most men have a physical advantage over a woman.
Some men (the ones who give the rest of us a bad name) like to exercise control over their partners. They keep them at home. They stop them having friends. They humiliate them. They destroy their confidence and they take away their self-worth. And they assault them physically. Such men, basically, are psychopaths. But not all situations of domestic violence fit this model. (in fact, hopefully, not many). Sometimes (quite a lot of the time?) the female is either the perpetrator or the instigator or the antagonist or the agitator in a domestic violence situation. The male might have a physical advantage but may be the psychological victim. Unfortunately, ALL cases of domestic violence are treated the same: the female is the innocent victim and the male is the bastard perpetrator.
Now, I don't condone any domestic violence - but until the community starts looking at the truth of the situation instead of the politically correct version of it, we'll never be able to properly address the problem.
