None of us know what really happened in the Melanie Martinez incident, but I read an article recently suggesting that there's a largely unacknowledged problem with domestic abuse in lesbian relationships.
This from a well-respected British LGBT organisation:
"Stonewall's research shows that one in four lesbian and bi women have experienced domestic abuse in a relationship. Two thirds of those say the perpetrator was a woman."
Work out the numbers, and that means that around one in six women in lesbian or bi relationships have been abused by a woman.
The CDC in the USA reported in 2010 that more than 40% of lesbians had been subjected to rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner.
There's an interesting Wikipedia article on this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_lesbian_relationships
Sorry, fixing my comment, I posted the wrong link and didn't include any commentary.
So, I've heard this before and I was curious about it so I looked into it and here's what I found. While the statement itself may be true, it's based on problematic data and omits important information.
Data problem:
"The Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention states, "For several methodological reasons – nonrandom sampling procedures and self-selection factors, among others – it is not possible to assess the extent of same-sex domestic violence. Studies on abuse between gay male or lesbian partners usually rely on small convenience samples such as lesbian or gay male members of an association"
"Men and women both contribute to the prevalence of IPV among sexual minority women. For
example, the CDC found that 89.5% of bisexual women reported only male perpetrators of intimate
partner physical violence, rape, and/or stalking and that almost a third of lesbian women who have
experienced such incidents have had one or more male perpetrators."
So, the statistics are questionable but if you're going to use them anyway, it's disingenuous to omit the "fact" of the staggeringly high number of bisexual and lesbian women who are apparently victims of men.
IIN for women to take advantage of friends?
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Women are people. Some people are fucked up.
None of us know what really happened in the Melanie Martinez incident, but I read an article recently suggesting that there's a largely unacknowledged problem with domestic abuse in lesbian relationships.
This from a well-respected British LGBT organisation:
"Stonewall's research shows that one in four lesbian and bi women have experienced domestic abuse in a relationship. Two thirds of those say the perpetrator was a woman."
Work out the numbers, and that means that around one in six women in lesbian or bi relationships have been abused by a woman.
The CDC in the USA reported in 2010 that more than 40% of lesbians had been subjected to rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner.
There's an interesting Wikipedia article on this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_lesbian_relationships
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Apparently lesbians have the higher statistics of domestic violence than any other group, funnily enough...Although it's not that funny.
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Sorry, fixing my comment, I posted the wrong link and didn't include any commentary.
So, I've heard this before and I was curious about it so I looked into it and here's what I found. While the statement itself may be true, it's based on problematic data and omits important information.
Data problem:
"The Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention states, "For several methodological reasons – nonrandom sampling procedures and self-selection factors, among others – it is not possible to assess the extent of same-sex domestic violence. Studies on abuse between gay male or lesbian partners usually rely on small convenience samples such as lesbian or gay male members of an association"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_same-sex_relationships
Omission problem:
"Men and women both contribute to the prevalence of IPV among sexual minority women. For
example, the CDC found that 89.5% of bisexual women reported only male perpetrators of intimate
partner physical violence, rape, and/or stalking and that almost a third of lesbian women who have
experienced such incidents have had one or more male perpetrators."
So, the statistics are questionable but if you're going to use them anyway, it's disingenuous to omit the "fact" of the staggeringly high number of bisexual and lesbian women who are apparently victims of men.
Bullshit
Thanks for the insightful post.
It's appalling.