Intimate Partner Violence Against Women Essay

It is wildly well know that domestic violence or intimate partner violence is primarily a women’s plight in the sense that women are usually the ones in the relationship to be abused. That is completely accurate, 1 in 3 women have experience abuse of some from an intimate partner; and although it is known, many people still do not realize that men in intimate partner relationships are also victims of domestic violence. In fact, 1 in 4 men have experienced some form of abuse by an intimate partner within their lifetime (Smith). Men can be physically, emotionally and even sexually abused by an intimate partner and are often less likely to speak up about the offense than women are. For the sake of this paper, heterosexual relationships will be discussed to break the stereotypical “men are the abusers” idea and promote the fact that women can abuse and be extremely violent as well.
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The common misconception is that if being attacked by a woman a man can easily stop her from hitting him without using much physical force to hurt her. This may not always be the case for some men who experience physical violence. Physical violence is defined as the intentional use of …show more content…
Physical violence has the most evidence because most attacks are done out of rage and on places on the body that are visible and not hidden. Many women use weapons to attack their partners or stage attacks when the man is unsuspecting to give them the upper hand. An anonymous testimony from a man states that his partner would regularly scream at him and once while drunk, attacked him with a knife, cutting his head and requiring getting stitches (Hidden Hurt). Another man, Thomas, tells his survival story of being a victim of intimate partner abuse