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Chris249 said..
They are NOT ignoring male victims. The page heading says "violence against men". There is also text about make victims. The simple fact of the plain English shows that you are wrong.
The stats are on the hyperlink, which takes you to an analysis of ABS stats on female AND male victims of violence by men AND women. Guess you didn't read the page
"There is also text about male victims".
Yes there is, the statement "men are also the victims of DV" is the sum total of their acknowledgment, and it's instantly marginalized by the following text about other victims and then the bonus statistic about male perpetrators of
all violence, not just DV. (IIRC)
There are
zero statistics about male victims
on that page/site, unlike the immediately accessible presentation of statistics for women victims.
You don't expect the average punter or people like jog lam to go wading through pages of pdf data to ferret out the details, when their confirmation bias is satisfied right there on the front page, then the "other side" of the issue hand-waved away with a brief acknowledgement, then marginalized, then further downgraded by another statistic? Honestly.
Which is all fine, that's their mandate, their area of interest. But point out that they're doing it, isn't a smear. THAT'S my point.