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To: Ilaine who wrote (44233)	7/6/1999 5:01:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Interesting. According to DOJ, in 76 number of murders was close to equal for men and women killed by intimates; violence against males has gone down faster than against females. Not what I would have expected. Ratio now is about 3-1 (nowhere near the 99-to-1 suggested earlier on the thread). Nonlethal crimes of violence were between 5 and 6 to 1. I'm surprised it's that close; I would have said closer to 10 to 1. Obviously I underestimate the amount of female-on-male violence. FBI shows violence basically 3/4 against women and 1/4 against men. Again, more against-men violence than I would have expected. I didn't read the reports closely enough to see whether there was a significant amount of same-sex violence either way. Just because a man is the victim doesn't mean a woman had to be the intimate, and vice versa. Sons on fathers, daughters on mothers, etc. But still, a higher percentage of male victims than I would have thought. Good to have some real data to look at instead of just arguing from anecdote or personal experience.