iboughtthewolf:

home-of-amazons:

Yeah I’m really tired of people downplaying the threat of male violence that females face daily for being female. Let’s look at some facts and statistics:

1. Number of women, in the last 12 years, killed as the result of domestic violence in the U.S.: 11,766

2. Number of women killed as a result of intimate partner violence in the U.S in 2007.: 1,638 

3. Number of workplace violence incidents in the U.S. annually that are the result of current or past intimate partner assaults: 18,700 

4. Number of women in the U.S. who report intimate partner violence: 1 in 4 

5. Number of women who will experience partner violence worldwide: 1 in 3

6. Order of causes of death for European women ages 16-44: domestic violence, cancer, traffic accidents

7. Increase in likelihood that a woman will die a violent death if a gun in present in the home: 270 percent

8. Percentage of the 900 million small arms that are kept in the home, worldwide: 75

9. Number of days that pass in France before another woman is killed at the hands of an intimate partner: 2.5

10. Number of women killed in Pakistan in the name of honor killings in 2011: 943

11. City in which man “butchered” his wife in front of their six children in 2012: Berlin

12. States in which man decapitated his wife with a chainsaw in 2010 and another man did the same, respectively: Texas and New York

13. Percentages of people killed in the U.S. by an intimate partner: 30 percent of women, 5.3 percent of men.

14. Percentage of the 31 Senate votes cast against the Violence Against Women Act that came from older, white, male Republicans: 95.8

15. Number of legal, medical, professional, faith-based and advocacy groups that signed a letter protesting the stripped-down VAWA: 300

16. First year that the Republican-led House of Representatives eroded VAWA of provisions designed to increase protections for Native Americans, immigrant women, members of the LGTBQ community and, yes, men: 2012

17. Estimated number of children, worldwide, exposed to domestic violence everyday: 10,000,000 

18. Worldwide, likelihood that a man who grew up in a household with domestic violence grows up to be an abuser: 3 to 4 times more likely than if he hadn’t.

19. Chance that a girl of high school age in the U.S. experiences violence in a dating relationship: 1 in 3

20. Number of teen girls who report experiencing physical or sexual violence by intimate partners: 1 in 5 

21. Percentage of U.S. cities citing domestic abuse as the primary cause of homelessness: 50 

22. Percentage of homeless women reporting domestic abuse: 63 

23. Percentage of homeless women with children reporting domestic abuse: 92 

24. Percentage of women with disabilities who report violence: 40 

25. Annual cost of domestic violence in the U.S. related to health care: $5.8 billion

26. Annual cost of domestic violence in the U.S. related to emergency care plus legal costs, police work, lost productivity: 37 billion dollars

27. Annual number of jobs lost in the U.S. as a result of intimate partner violence: 32,000 

28. Percentage change between 1980 and 2008 of women and men killed by intimate partners in the U.S.: 43 percent to 45 percent for women; 10 percent to 5 percent for men

29. Average cost of emergency care for domestic abuse related incidents for women and men according to the CDC: $948.00 for women, $387 for men

30. Increase in portrayals of violence against girls and women on network TV during a five year period ending in 2009: 120 percent

31. The number one cause of death for African American women ages 15-34 according to the American Bar Association: homicide at the hands of a partner

32. Chance that a lesbian in the U.S. will experience domestic (not necessarily intimate partner) violence: 50 percent

33. Ratio of women shot and killed by a husband or intimate partner compared to the total number of murders of men by strangers using any time of weapon, from 2002 homicide figures: 3x

34. Number of people who will be stalked in their lifetimes: 1 in 45 men and 1 in 12 women (broken out: 17 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native women; 8.2 percent of white women, 6.5 percent of African American women, and 4.5 percent of Asian/Pacific Islander women)

35. Percentage of stalkers identified as known to victims: 90.3 

36. Percentage of abused women in the U.S. who report being strangled by a spouse in the past year: 33 to 47.3 (this abuse often leaves no physical signs)

37. According to one study, percentage of domestic abuse victims who tried to leave after less severe violent and nonviolent instances of abuse: 66 versus less than 25 

38. Average number of times an abuser hits his wife before she makes a police report: 35 

39. No. 1 and No. 2 causes of women’s deaths during pregnancy in the U.S.: Domestic homicide and suicide, often tied to abuse

40. Number of women who were shot by guns kept by men in the home in the United States: 2 in 3 

41. Percentage of rape and sexual assault victims under the age of 18 who are raped by a family member: 34

42. Number of women killed every day in the U.S. by a spouse: 3+

43. The primary reason cited by right-wing conservatives for objecting to the Violence Against Women Act: To protect the family.

44. Percentage reduction in reports of violence after men and women in South Africa went through an educational training program on health, domestic violence and gender norms: 55 

45. Number of members of Congress who have gone through an educational training program on health, economics, violence, and gender norms: 0

Nicked from here with a few improvements

Let’s also not ignore that “transwomen” have more legal protections than women—violence against transgender people qualifies as a hate crime while violence against women is seen as isolated incidents of violence that have no relation to a culture of sexism and misogyny, a culture that systematically devalues and degrades women and girls from birth.

Women’s rights activists around the world have been working to change legislation for over a century since the emergence of feminist movements and feminists today are STILL trying to get laws passed on domestic violence, rape, birth control, and abortion, issues that concern their basic human rights. “Transwomen” have managed to get more laws passed in their favour in the last few decades in which they’ve been a vocal group, sometimes at the expense of women and girls. Patriarchy is more willing to sympathise with males than females, wow!

There is NO such thing as “cis” privilege because females do not and cannot have privilege over males in a patriarchy.

Violence against trans people is terrible and it should not happen, but don’t you dare downplay the violence females face in order to fight against transphobia.

(Source: nextyearsgirl)