"the Dixie Chicks song is part of a new breed in which women fight back in some way against male violence--or, from another perspective, perhaps mete out vigilante justice, after "the law" steadfastly refuses to do anything when the woman is actually being abused."
This reminded me of a something I read a while back. A year or so ago, the local paper here (Dallas Morning News) did a multi issue feature on domestic violence. In one of the stories, the reporter had gathered local police statistics for the previous year and made a surprising discovery. It seems that of all the "domestic disturbance" type calls the police had handled, well over 90 percent of the victims were female - nothing surprising there. However, in looking at just the incidents involving homocide, 70 percent of the victims were male! The reporter observed that even the law enforcement people helping on the story were shocked. Now, of course, there are various reasons why this statistic would be skewed, and I'm well aware of how easy it is to lie with statistics. But I still found this a rather interesting nugget. I would be interested if this is a isolated thing that just happened that one year in this one place, or does it indicate some kind of trend. Sybil _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
