MARK PERRY: Another example of a misleading, incomplete representation of facts about an important women’s issue. “The reality is that while women are at a 52% greater risk than men for being the victim of homicide by an intimate partner, men are at a four-time greater risk than women of being murdered overall, and are six-times more likely than women to be murdered by somebody besides an intimate partner. The ‘War on Women’ graphic above undermines the seriousness of domestic violence and compromises the credibility of feminists by presenting incomplete and misleading data. Unfortunately, the ‘War on Women’ rhetoric often becomes a ‘War on the Truth’ by distorting and misrepresenting factual data, and this is a classic example.”

If feminists were actually interested in decreasing domestic abuse against women, they’d encourage stable marriages: “The safest place for women of all is in the marital home [PDF], living with their husbands. This goes for women with or without children, and the differences are dramatic. A single mother living alone with her children is almost thirteen times as likely to be a victim of domestic violence as a married mother.”

And they’d encourage heterosexuality among women over lesbianism, since homosexuals and bisexuals are more likely to be involved in intimate partner violence.

But they don’t encourage either of these, because they aren’t really interested in reducing domestic violence against women, just in controlling men.