Tayo Bero is an American Guardian journalist and the blithering idiot behind a piece in yesterday’s edition, Diddy’s lawyers are banking on the ‘mutual abuse’ defence. Newsflash: it’s not a thing. She starts with this:
“Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex-trafficking and racketeering trial is under way, and the music mogul’s lawyers gave us a glimpse into what their strategy would be during jury selection last week, when they finally admitted that he was violent toward his ex Cassie Ventura. But now they’re claiming that the violence was mutual.
In a statement to the judge, the defense attorney Marc Agnifilo said they plan to “take the position [that] there was mutual violence in their relationship”. Combs’s lawyers also describe Ventura, the prosecution’s star witness, as “strong” with “a nature of violence”, and “capable of starting physical confrontation”.
This is classic men’s rights fare, and now is a great time to remind everyone that mutual abuse isn’t a thing – and it is extremely dangerous to allow celebrities to normalize it.”
A response that I often post in comments sections in response to such feminist BS is the following:
“The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project (PASK) published in May 2013 in the journal Partner Abuse is the most comprehensive review of domestic violence research ever carried out. This unparallelled three-year research project was conducted by 42 scholars at 20 universities and research centres. The headline finding of the PASK review was that:
“Men and women perpetrate physical and non-physical forms of abuse at comparable rates, most domestic violence is mutual, women are as controlling as men, domestic violence by men and women is correlated with essentially the same risk factors, and male and female perpetrators are motivated for similar reasons.”
A key numerical result from the PASK review was:
“Among large population samples, 57.9% of intimate-partner violence (IPV) reported was bi-directional, 42.1% unidirectional, 13.8% of the unidirectional violence was male-to-female, 28.3% was female-to-male.”
The last point is worth emphasising. In the 42.1% of (heterosexual) couples in which one partner is always the perpetrator and the other the victim, the woman is TWICE as likely to be the perpetrator and (therefore) HALF as likely to be the victim.”
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As also in the Australian research reported above. There is plenty of evidence to support what Erin Pizzey observed in Prone to Violence over 40 years ago. In the UK almost all the research done is only on women victims and in the rare cases where research includes males the Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy which dictates the spending of Gov. funded social research, means that it’s only the findings that pertain to women and girls that are in executive summaries and “findings”. Though actually reading the body of the report will reveal the often “surprising” extent of abuse of males. Even sometimes with a suggestion “more research is needed”, yet such research is never done because the Gov. Is the main funder and it is only interested in VAWG Strategy priorities.
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Woman who killed partner as he slept jailed for 12 years – BBC News As is often the case a big kitchen knife is her weapon of choice. Clearly the detective inspector doesn’t think mutually abusive relationships don’t exist; “Det Insp Michelle Griffin of the PSNI said it has been an “extremely difficult case” involving two people who had been in a “mutually abusive relationship””. Clearly the Police in NI haven’t had enough training from feminist “experts”
“The detective added: “It’s a sad reminder that no-one should ever take the law into their own hands, and I want to appeal to anyone, irrespective of gender or background, who is experiencing, or has experienced, domestic abuse to please speak to us.””
Outside the big “woke” Police forces and amongst “coal face” police the messy and not “gendered” nature of chaotic and abusive relationships are what is actually observed.
Clearly the Jury and Judge hadn’t hat the proper Wistrich/Bindel training which says it must have been his fault, his behaviour made her “mad”.
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