Reply #21: "Men are almost always the abusers"... Yes, except when they're not...

[east texas lib]

Here's an extensively cited peer reviewed study...

http://www.batteredmen.com/straus21.htm

THE CONTROVERSY OVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BY WOMEN: A METHODOLOGICAL,
THEORETICAL, AND SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE ANALYSIS-Murray A. Straus


"In the mid 1970s my colleagues and I made the disturbing discovery that women physically assaulted partners in marital, cohabiting, and dating relationships as often as men assaulted their partners (Steinmetz 1978; Straus 1997; Straus, Gelles and Steinmetz 1980). This finding caused me and my former colleague Suzanne Steinmetz to be excommunicated as feminists. Neither of us has accepted that sentence, but it remains in force. So when Salman Rushdie was condemned to death for his heresy, we may have felt even more empathy than most people because we had also experienced many threats, including a bomb threat."

I found this paragragh to be rather interesting. I guess their data and findings conflicted with heretofore accepted conventional wisdom.