25 February

I sometimes say America doesn’t have a gun problem, it has a violence problem. These DV stats make a similar point. That the problem we’re seeing there is less a gender problem than a violence problem. Notice that women definitely cop the brunt of physical and sexual violence, possibly because men are more likely to express their anger physically. In the area of emotional abuse it’s almost level pegging, suggesting the anger is shared anger, but expressed in different ways. We need to understand what makes domestic spaces fertile ground for violence.