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@MichaelGLFlood @PhilMitchell83 And no you did not provide such data.

@TheTinMenBlog @PhilMitchell83 What insults? I made no comment whatsoever on you. I simply asked where that data is from. And provided other data showing that bystander intervention is either more often by women or fairly evenly split. (Although your comment may be on a more specific form of behaviour.)

79% of violent crime is by men, and we gender this as "male violence". Yet a far higher percentage of bystander rescues are by men (92%), and we never call that "male heroism". Why do we only ever gender the bad things men do, and never the good?

@MichaelGLFlood @PhilMitchell83 Calling me a male supremacist is pretty insulting tbh.

@Serpent_45 41% of domestic abuse victims are male, according the latest Gov data.

@TheTinMenBlog I dont follow There are more male victims than females?

Did you know that the Director General of the UK Statistics Authority officially ruled that the word "vast" is not an 'appropriate' word to describe the disparity between male and female abuse victims. And this happened in 2020, when ~33% of victims were male, and now it's 41%.

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@JamesLNuzzo Incredible that the vertical jump of women over 65 is significantly higher than women aged 61-65?!

Sex difference in vertical jump height across the lifespan. The dataset included 24,804 males and 5,413 females, who were 6–75 years old.

@PhilMitchell83 Exactly. I totally accept that the ways in which men and women experience / perpetrate abuse is different (gendered), and requires a gender sensitive approach. But the idea that abuse is "gendered" in that it is unilaterally men doing it to women, is a farce.

@TheTinMenBlog Currently writing about this in the 5th chapter of my next book. Part of the problem is that there are different definitions/interpretations of “gendered” many of which crumble in the face of logic. I’ll be quoting Erin

Is domestic abuse a "gendered" issue? Well, to find out, I tracked down the woman who set up the world's first shelter for abused women, who wrote the first book on domestic abuse, and founded the biggest and oldest domestic abuse charity on earth... Let's ask: Erin Pizzey.

Just ask yourself – If Professor Flood were to suddenly agree with us (in that IPV was not "gendered" but largely bilateral, with both women and men making up a significant number of victims), what would happen to his career, his speaking invitations, and his political connections? If his career is built upon a particular model of violence (male/patriarchal violence), then his career is also dependent upon that model not being debunked by the latest research – even if said research is overwhelming. Worse, to accept that many millions of abused men have been excluded from care by these "gendered" models of abuse, would be to accept he has been directly complicit in popularising and mainstreaming these harmful and exclusionary models, to the detriment of an untold number of men. He's arguing, at least in a large part, from a place of self interest and self preservation. That's why talking to such people is mostly a waste of time IMO.

@TheTinMenBlog @MichaelGLFlood Very good point.

Major development for men and boys on the national level thanks to @SenMarkKelly. Great to see momentum on this.

@PhilMitchell83 @MichaelGLFlood When you realise his primary motivation is to protect a political ideology, and that any recognition of male sacrifice is "male supremacy", then suddenly these weird arguments and citations are entirely relevant.

@TheTinMenBlog @MichaelGLFlood Completely irrelevant to your specific comment

@MichaelGLFlood Literally all of this data is irrelevant (albeit interesting). I'm citing data from the Carnegie Awards, which give out awards to people who risk their lives to save a stranger. At least one study I've read has found 91-93% of winners are male. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@TheTinMenBlog (Women generally hold stronger anti-violence attitudes, reject violence myths more, report higher bystander efficacy, and often engage in supportive and indirect forms of intervention. Men are more likely than women to undertake direct/physical interventions when they act.)

@PhilMitchell83 @MichaelGLFlood The Flood classic. a) Insult and make personal attacks b) cite irrelevant data

@MichaelGLFlood @TheTinMenBlog Nothing there invalidates George’s specific comment on “bystander rescues”

What's missing from the conversation of intimate partner homicide? Source: Fatalities related to intimate partner violence: a comprehensive perspective pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32839248/

@JamesLNuzzo Feminists are sure obsessed with thinking they’re experts in masculinity - if men claimed such expertise on femininity they’d be branded as patriarchal misogynists! 😏🤔

@ForeverUnitedFU IPV is only one part of 'violent crime' – men commit 79% of all violent crimes, but I understand IPV is a lot closer to parity.

@TheTinMenBlog Every honest study on I to ate partner violence—all of them.

In the UK, in 2026, every single man or boy who experiences domestic violence, sexual abuse, stalking, online harms, or similar crimes; is legally categorised as a ‘male victim of violence against a woman’. Read that again – ‘a male victim of violence against women.’ It is truly absurd, and it’s not just semantics. Such classification means these abused men are made invisible, not given taylored care, or gender sensitive support; quite literally left out of appropriate services, to fend for themselves. Neither are these invisible men of a small number. In fact, 1.5 MILLION men experienced domestic abuse in England and Wales, with many more in other parts of the UK, similarly erased from the discussion. So we don’t see male victims spoken about in the media, in policy, within the news, online, or in Westminster. And too often, when such men are talked about, it is sneered at, mocked, or snuffed out by those who wave these men away as insignificant, or as secret abusers themselves. We do all this, and then ask ourselves: do so few abused men ask for help? Gaslighting literal victims of abuse, in lieu of our own political incompetence. So I ask – If the world and society at large refuses to recognise abuse against men in such a way, then why would these men recognise it themselves? In my new podcast I discuss this very issue with one of the most influential men in the area of male victims of abuse: veteran campaigner Mark Brooks OBE, who is the Chair of Mankind; the UK’s premier service supporting abused men… So why do abused men so rarely ask for help? What do you think? New podcast with award-winning policy advisor for men and boys @BelvedereBrooks out now! youtube.com/watch?v=ep6WOi…

This is terrible. Would love to see this get better not worse.

@Spencer8fb That is so dumb.

@TheTinMenBlog Yeah but not like men, collectively they are physically incapable of bullying men. Just as a general rule i mean. No rule is 100% though

@ForeverUnitedFU Show me

@TheTinMenBlog Figures are wrong. There is more violence from women.