I realize that anecdote is not data, however, I’ve worked in a criminal DA office (so cal) for 9 years and I haven’t seen this anti-male bias vis a vis domestic violence. (we have pursued DV cases – PC273.5, PC243(e)(1), PC422, etc – against all manner of couples- married, divorced, dating, former-dating, straight, gay)
Our victim/witness advocates help anyone who wants it and they are pretty savvy about who are the flakes trying to game the system.
Women, especially SAHM’s are particularly screwed in the divorce courts, so for every man who thinks he’s a target, I’ll find you a woman who has been evicted from her home and is being stalked and harassed because her ex is pouring money to lawyers instead of child support.
For every silly RO issued, there’s one that is refused and the seeker ends up in the hospital or worse (we just had one of those a few months ago)
This isn’t about “sex wars”, its about the contradictory and fragmentary way our society now views the institution of marriage. It’s about how it may take two to make a marriage, but it one takes one vengeful one to make life a living hell for the other.
And then, its up to people like me to clean up the mess.
And regardless of the “equality” of aggressiveness, men still murder their women partners at a much higher rate. ONE THIRD of female murder victims were murdered by an intimate while only 3% of male murder victims were murdered by an intimate
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/intimates.htm
Does anyone want to minimize that?
