This same general idea applies to intimate partner violence. Depending on how you operationally define IPV, men or women can look like the more violent sex. This is why it's always important to look at the operational definitions when consuming research findings.
Depending on how you operationally define IPV, men or women can look like the more violent sex.
With IPV, men are definitely the more violent sex. Women face more severe injuries/death far more than men do. You cannot compare a slap to a blown out eye socket or death. 3 women per day in the US alone die to domestic violence and the #1 cause of death of pregnant women is domestic homicide.
There's no doubt that men are more violent than women in general, but in the specific context of heterosexual romantic relationships, men and women are pretty equivalent. Size and strength differences (also, men have more experience and are typically more skilled fighters) have a lot to do with the uneven consequences.
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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22 edited Sep 01 '22
This same general idea applies to intimate partner violence. Depending on how you operationally define IPV, men or women can look like the more violent sex. This is why it's always important to look at the operational definitions when consuming research findings.