Ian McNicholl, a survivor of extreme domestic violence, on ‘Loose Women’

/ Mike Buchanan

Last night I publicly challenged Julie Bindel over claims she’d made during a debate (with Zara Faris) concerning the gendered nature of domestic violence. More on that in due course, but it’s timely that a supporter has just uploaded video footage of Ian McNicholl, a survivor of extreme domestic violence, on the ITV programme Loose Women two day ago. We’ve added a few notes underneath the video, and urge you to support male victims of domestic violence by making a donation to Mankind Initiative – here. Thank you.

Please leave any comments you may have about Ian’s interview on our YouTube channel, not here.

5 thoughts on “Ian McNicholl, a survivor of extreme domestic violence, on ‘Loose Women’”

    • Thanks Amy. It’s far more than ‘women aren’t the only victims’. Prof Martin Fiebert’s Bibliography of 330+ studies and reports states that women are as physically aggressive as men towards opposite-sex intimate partners, and we know from stats in the Crime Survey of England & Wales that men suffer at least as much as women in terms of both frequency of assaults, and their severity. Details in my public challenge of Polly Neate, CEO, Women’s Aid (currently the last item on our ‘menu’).

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  2. If you saw the beginning of the programme, there was lots of girly-chat about the reluctance of some men to commit themselves to marriage. It was prompted by the announcement of the engagement of Andy Murray to his gorgeous girlfriend, after many years of will-he-won’t-he. You know the one, she would have wanted him even if he hadn’t been a rich, famous tennis player who she has been following around the world and on whose behalf she seems to have had little else to do than looking anguished in the crowd . . . Come on ‘Loose Women’ ladies. You spend a lot of your time writing off the male gender, so don’t be surprised if we aren’t rushing to imprison ourselves with your gender.

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  3. http://m.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30303405

    Yet another example of how far we have to travel for men to be safe from abuse. This man was terribly injured . ” Looking back Mark explains why he didn’t defend himself.
    “I get asked that question a lot. Why didn’t I hit her back? I just didn’t. I don’t hit girls. I’m not like that.””
    Yet the DV industry pumps out the lie that males ” condone” violence against women. The truth is of course the reverse.

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