Our thanks to Greg for pointing us to this piece:
http://www.womensgrid.org.uk/groups/?p=1857
From early in the piece:
Women’s Aid is highlighting that misleading statistics around men and domestic violence are leading to poor decision making in the commissioning of specialist domestic violence services for male and female victims.
If you read the whole piece you’ll be left in little doubt that Women’s Aid will do all they can to ensure a continuation of the status quo in which all (or virtually all) taxpayers’ money is directed solely to female victims of domestic violence, thereby funding the livelihoods of the hordes of professional feminists employed in the industry.
On the subject of professional feminists, a Women’s Aid board member, Dickie James, recently ‘favorited’ a tweet by ‘Radical Feminist’ in which the latter had misrepresented fathers getting pleasure from playing with their babies, as fathers getting pleasure from ‘abusing’ them. The tweet linked to an article by a Canadian expert on parenting. He was appalled at the misrepresentation, and replied to the tweet accordingly.
We publicly challenged Dickie James on the matter, following which she retracted her ‘favoriting’ of the offensive tweet:
The piece continues to attract a large number of ‘hits’, but no apology from Dickie James has been forthcoming, nor any condemnation of ‘Radical Feminist’.
Justice for Men & Boys 
There is irony in this in that the DV industry has been mis quoting statistics for decades. Even in this they say imply Domestic Abuse has been increasing which is untrue it has fallen consistently for two decades. In some areas there has been a noticeable increase in men reporting their abuse however though it remains very hard for men to do so and be helped. Womensaid and Refuge amongst others have consistently quoted “1 in 4″ and other grossly inflated statistics. It is good news if public bodies are using data to guide their decisions rather than ” sound bite” information cherry picked from old old sources.
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So much of the piece is twisting what’s going on. They say men aren’t seeking services, but how many men are aware that services for men exist (in the rare instances they do)? It will surely take time to build up public consciousness, and I don’t see ANY public money going into that. Public bodies are only just starting to use stats to guide decisions in this area, and women’s organisations will try to stop them doing so, by muddying the waters on stats. It’d been known for decades that women are at least as physically aggressive as men towards intimate partners (300+ studies internationally showing this – Fiebert’s bibliography) and in relationships where violence is one-way, the perpetrators are usually women (Nicola Graham-Kevan, University of Central Lancashire). There are numerous reasons why men and women won’t leave abusive partners, for men one of the most important is the justifiable expectation they’ll never see their kids again.
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“They say men aren’t seeking services, but how many men are aware that services for men exist”
Male victims are excised from the broader discourse. If you don’t speak to them they can’t answer.
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And of course Newsnight pops up with a DV story fuelled by Labour. As usual all about “protecting women”. Yvette Cooper did manage to mention males could be victims. But as usual the report gives the impression it’s all about women.
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