Theos-Talk Archives (September 1997 Message tl00101)

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> From: K. Paul Johnson <pjohnson@leo.vsla.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <theos-l@vnet.net>
> Subject: Male/female violence
> Date: Friday, September 05, 1997 2:36 PM
> 
> I was on very close terms for four years with the researcher/
> librarian at the National Victim Center, an advocacy group for
> victims of violent crime.  Part of his job was compiling
> statistics from all reliable sources on the subject.  We had
> several conversations about the frequency of female on male
> violence being the same as vice versa, and how violently angry
> certain feminists got whenever this was brought up.  But he
> also said that men do far more damage when they do physical
> harm, and kill their partners far more often than women; so this part of
> Tom's summary leaves me scratching my head.

Thanks for your intelligent and informed post, KPJ. :-)

A. Safron