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A thread on the term “sex/gender based violence”

There appears to be a lot of people using this term, & accompanying text suggests that domestic violence (DV) is being perpetrated by men against women BECAUSE they are women

This (in the main) is not true

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Whilst DV perpetrated against someone is of course horrific & unacceptable, a number of studies show that men who perpetrated violence were not motivated by the fact that the victim was female

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This appears to be an attempt to magnify men as perpetrators, & state that the sex/gender of the victim is a motivating factor in the perpetration of violence against women. In the main; not true

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This is a rather huge assumption, ignores the evidence that contradicts this, & also dismisses violence perpetrated against men by women, & in same-sex relationships.

See the excellent presentation below by Pr Nicola Graham-Kevan

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Not all types of harm that mainly affect women occur BECAUSE they’re women, just like not all types of harm that mainly affect men occur BECAUSE they’re men

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Also important to remember that there are more men on the planet trying to protect women & others from harm, & combat DV, than there are men perpetrating it. We sadly seem to minimise/ignore that