What Do Domestic Violence Figures Reflect

Most of the calls from women made to domestic violence services every year come not from women in need of protection, but from women who are actively aggressing against their male partners. 

As such, the domestic violence figures reflect mostly the amount of violence being directed at men

"A woman can, at any time, dismiss her male partner, without justification, and have that partner imprisoned if he objects too strongly to his dismissal. 

For example, if he raises his voice in anger he may be arrested for 'domestic violence'. In any event, a woman can dismiss the man regardless of the circumstances, and at her sole discretion. 

She can fire him from his jobs as father and partner, whenever she wishes, no matter how long he has served the family, and even if he has done absolutely nothing wrong. 
Further, the woman can insist that the man is evicted from his own house, and never allowed to re-enter it. 

If she has children, a woman may further demand that her sacked partner must, under threat of imprisonment, forfeit part of any future income to the woman and her children for some considerable time into the future - and this is the case even if her children turn out not to be his."

How many incidents of DOMESTIC violence against women would take place annually if these were the terms and conditions that were set for all their male partners?

An enormous number, one would imagine.

But, here in the West, they are the terms and conditions for their male partners!

Is it really surprising to find, therefore, that the incidence of 'domestic violence' against women has hardly decreased in 20 years?

I say 'hardly decreased', but no-one actually knows the true figures for domestic violence. The official figures are virtually meaningless in that they derive mostly from incidents that would paint us all as 'domestically violent'. 

The legal reality, however, is that domestic violence is now largely defined by the woman's attitude to whatever she claims to be experiencing at the time. And the problem with this - apart from the sheer unfairness of it all from the point of view of the man - is that her attitude is not something that is objectively definable, and neither is it 'fixed' - in the sense that a woman's attitudes can change and fluctuate almost as much as the wind. Indeed, in the USA, some 20 million women experience clinically severe emotional disturbances every single month through PMS, and about 5 million have significant personality disorders.

And sometimes, of course, a woman's real attitude isn't even 'observable' - such as when she's exaggerating, lying, or 'confused', perhaps through drink, drugs, medicines.