The start of the Wikipedia page on Benedict College, South Carolina:
“Benedict College is a private historically black college in Columbia, Soiuth Carolina. Founded in 1870 by northern Baptists, it was originally a teachers’ college. It has since expanded to offer majors in many disciplines across the liberal arts.”
The college’s motto is “A Power for Good in Society”. The full piece:
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – Awareness for domestic violence: the male perspective. While not often discussed, it was today’s topic at Benedict College.
The physical, emotional, and financial. Domestic violence takes many forms.
A dialogue like this is done annually for domestic violence awareness month, but Dr. Leon Geter says Benedict’s goal is to keep the conversation going year-round, helping prevent violence and saving lives.
“They may not even be aware they’re in a domestic violence situation; they just think it’s a way of life,” Dr. Geter said. [J4MB emphasis. And there you have it. The reason that, in surveys, fewer men than women report being the victims of domestic violence, despite being a majority of the victims (see below).] “So, this is educating people about what’s right and what’s wrong in a relationship.”
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I often copy and paste the following text into my online comments on pieces about domestic violence:
“Women are more likely to be abused by female partners than by male partners, the most violent couples are lesbian couples:
Why does Julie Bindel never write about women abused by women? Does she not care about these women, or does their existence undermine her career as a feminist propagandist?
The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project (PASK) was published in May 2013 in the journal Partner Abuse and 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.” [J4MB emphasis.]
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