Since Laura Bates has signally failed to provide any evidence to support her claim – commonly made by feminists – that ‘over two women a week are killed by partners or ex-partners in the UK’, we thought we’d take the trouble of pointing people to government statistics which prove her claim to be false, and Laura a worthy winner of our latest ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ award.
We refer you to this report from the Office for National Statistics. On page 11, early in the section titled, ‘Victims aged 16 and over’, we find:
In 2012/13, just over half (53%) of female victims aged 16 years or over were killed by their partners / ex-partners (76 offences).
One of the killers was a woman, so 75 women in 2012/13 were killed by male partners / ex-partners. Laura Bates is either lying in claiming that over two women per week are being killed by partners or ex-partners, or she’s claiming there are fewer than 38 weeks in the year.
For those of you who’d like to read around the subject, you might like to click on this link which will put you in a good position to research official statistics on homicides, whether between partners and ex-partners, or not. If you click on ‘Download PDF’ at the top of the page – next to the Adobe icon – you’ll be taken to the aforementioned PDF.
I’ll email Laura Bates a link to this post in a moment, inviting her either to substantiate her repeated claim, or to publicly retract it.
Justice for Men & Boys 
~ 76 victims / 365 days * 7 days / 1 week ~ 1.4575 victims / week
that’s quotable: the actual figure is more like 1 1/2 victims / week
to claim 2 victims / week is to inflate the stats by ~ 33%
easy numbers, but still sad statistics, even though Bates is wrong
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Thanks. If rounding 1.4575 it would be more honest to say ‘One woman…’. But ‘Over two women…’?
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Feminists don’t lie – she must have made a mistake – oh, wait, feminists don’t make mistakes either.
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From the report:
“The homicide rate has consistently been higher for males than for females (Figure 2.2). In 2012/13 the homicide rate for males (13.6 per million population) was just over twice that for females (6.0 per million population) (Appendix table 2.03 (1.38 Mb Excel sheet)).
In 2012/13, around two-thirds of homicide victims were male (69%, 380 victims) and one-third were female (31%, 171 victims)”
…so overall, men are at far higher risk. Why don’t we hear people like Laura spreading this little stat around? Cherry-picking springs to mind!
And this:
“Around two-fifths (38%) of male victims aged 16 or over were killed by a friend/acquaintance in 2012/13 (similar to that found in 2011/12, 42%). In contrast, female adult victims were less likely than men to be killed by a friend/acquaintance, at 8% of homicides in 2012/13 (11 offences).
In 2012/13, just over one-third of male victims (129 males,38%) and around one in ten female victims (16 females, 11%) aged 16 and over were killed by strangers.”
…which, once again, is a stat pretty much ignored by feminists who appear only to give a shit about circumstances which specifically show women to be the victims at the hands of evil, male perpetrators. Their refusal to look beyond the female=victim/male=perpetrator stat proves that feminists don’t care about MEN who die; they only care about WOMEN who die. That, in my mind, does not promote equality.
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