Number of UK women convicted of domestic abuse doubles

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I agree with the first part, den. Feminism that adopts a positive approach to societal reform is to be encouraged, but militant feminism of the kind Greer espouses is no better than the male sexism it despises, and it should be shunned. You don't get equality by oppressing your oppressor, you simply turn the table.

Exactly

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the number of instances where the abuser is the woman is surprising (to me anyway). It also seems that, among the younger generation - those in their 20's - the level of abuse is more or less equal.
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I guess sex is no better than the other..

because the female abuser claims that she is the victim of her partner.

Someone suggested this could not be, because the man could show the marks made on his body when he was attacked. While that is true, I am sure that such women are capable of marking themselves if they want to,

This seems quite farfetched to me - what do you base this idea on? I mean, mark themselves how? And that still does not mean that the man isn't marked.

but, more likely, the abuse takes a different form, a form women are far more able to inflict than physical violence, namely, mental abuse.

Why do you feel that women are more able to inflict mental abuse than men?

Mental torture can be more insidious, more degrading and more permanent in its effects than physical violence. Its marks are invisible, however.

Perhaps..I think they kind of go together.