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ABOUT WOMEN COULD BE FATAL
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[B]"Women," writes Pearson, "commit the majority of child homicides in the United States, a greater share of physical child abuse, an equal rate of sibling violence and assaults on the elderly, about a quarter of child sexual abuse, an overwhelming share of the killing of newborn, and a fair preponderance of spousal assaults." The African-American man living in Chicago, for instance, is at the greatest risk of being killed by an intimate partner. Eighteen percent of black men killed in Chicago between 1966-1996 died at the hands of their mates; 65 percent of these men had no record of violence, abuse or other. "Ten to 20 percent of the six to eight thousand Sudden Infant Deaths reported each year in the US conceal accidental or deliberate suffocation," usually by mothers.
Nowhere are the myths about female pacifism more robust than in spousal violence orthodoxy. There are hundreds of sociological surveys conducted with mathematical randomness that attest to the fact that women assault their partners as often as, or more often than, men do. Gender symmetry in violence between couples is as well documented as it is well concealed by government number crunchers. In the acclaimed, Moral Panic: Biopolitics Rising, Prof. John Fekete references the dozens of two-sex surveys conducted in Canada and in the US over the past 30 years. All "show that women in relationships with men commit comparatively as many or more acts of physical violence as men do, at every level of severity." It is a slap for a slap, beating for beating, knifing and shooting for knifing and shooting, on the evidence of women’s own self reports. The fact that women are more likely to be injured in domestic altercations points to differences in physical strength between men and women, not in culpability. Physical weakness is not to be equated with moral innocence. What we have here is indeed one of the most astonishing episodes of dishonest science in our times.[/B]
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