Classic BBC propaganda. The above headline is above a piece which starts with a photo of a distressed young woman. You have to look very closely to find any mention of male victims of DA. The definition of DA is, of course, ludicrously inclusive. From the piece:
Domestic abuse includes non-physical abuse, threats, force, sexual assault or stalking by a partner or family member – the most common of which is abuse by a partner.
So if a woman has been shouted at once by a partner or family member in the past 12 months, she’s a victim of DA.
Justice for Men & Boys 
And of course the same report from the ONS says 7% of young men are affected. Funny how that didn’t get in the headline.
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BBC headline: “Men & Women affected by intimate partner violence in nearly equal measure”
Can you imagine the noise all the heads exploding at places like Women’s Aid would make?
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BBC headline;
“9 out of 10 young women completely unaffected by DA”.
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Surprised its only ten percent then; from the range of “crimes” available, not only am I simultaneously a victim and perpetrator of DV, as is everyone I know. This constant downwards definition of constitutes a crime, in a society where men are over-represented at every stage of the criminal justice process, is institutional sexism of the most flagrant sort. I demand government funding to campaign against it, preferable from conference suites in five star hotels.
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