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Just as violent, if not more so: Women

Another lie that the feminists have been using for decades is that women are the victims in a relationship. Not so. In case study after case study, the facts point to the real truth: Women are as violent, and in some cases more violent, then men:

In 2007, Harvard Medical School announced a major national study showing half of heterosexual domestic violence is reciprocal and women initiated most of both the reciprocal and non-reciprocal violence.

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The University of Florida Êrecently found women are more likely than men to "stalk, attack and abuse" their partners.

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The University of Washington recently found similar results.

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A recent study in the Journal of Family Violence found many male callers to a national hotline experienced high rates of severe forms of violence from very controlling female partners.

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A University of Pennsylvania emergency room report found 13% of men reported being assaulted by a female partner in the previous 12 months, of which 50% were choked, kicked, bitten, punched, or had an object thrown at them, 37% involved a weapon, and 14% required medical attention, at

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University of Pennsylvania Professor Richard Gelles states: 'Contrary to the claim that women only hit in self-defense, we found that women were as likely to initiate the violence as were men,' in his article reprinted at

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This data is recognized by the American Psychological Association.

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According to the Centers for Disease Control, every year there are 4.8 million incidents of intimate partner assaults and rapes against women and 2.9 against men, with 25% of the deaths being men.ÊÊ

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Archer, J., 'Sex differences in aggression between heterosexual partners: A meta-analytic review,' Aggression and Violent Behavior (7) 2002, 313-351,

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Dutton, D., & Corvo, K., 'Transforming a flawed policy: A call to revive psychology and science in domestic violence research and practice,' (11) 2006, 457-483,

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Dutton & Nicholls is "The gender paradigm in domestic violence research and theory: Part 1ÑThe conflict of theory and data", which is on our website at

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Straud & Scott, "Gender Symmetry in Partner Violence: The Evidence, the Denial, and the Implications for Primary Prevention and Treatment"

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More sources on CDC study

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Why do women need laws to provide "equal rights" when they are the real cause of violence in a relationship or getting further ahead in business or education while holding back males at the same time? Had enough? Speak out against radical feminism and be heard.

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