Women have gotten their equality..They are now in the sewer every bit as much as men..The problem is that they think there is a penthouse in the sewer...sorry ladies but no

It just strikes me strange that a woman can push a man hit a man but pull a man's hair , and then if the man raises his hand to the woman she would dare him to hit her and then threaten to call the police ...........and you know this happens a high percentage of the time and yet when the police do show up nine times out ten the man gets taken in.

We didn't "attempt" to show, we did show.

Criminal justice data is unreliable because men report less, but over 200 studies prove women are as violent as men in relationships. Right here.

http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

For example, a major study funded by the Centers for Disease Control found half of heterosexual DV is reciprocal, and women were responsible for more than half of it and initiated more than half of the reciprocal violence. Right here. http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/15/31-a

A 32-nation study by the University of New Hampshire found women are as violent and controlling as men in relationships worldwide. http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm?type=n
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41E2.pdf

Whenever I say "Woman-UP Man-Down", I get deleted.

Channel 9 News isn't the only one that mentioned her violence from the court records. So did CNN, though briefly and then moved on. So did people Magazine, but again only minimally.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20300411,00.html

So did TMZ.
http://poponthepop.com/2009/03/09/tmz-confirms-what-we-already-told-you-rihanna-hit-chris-brown-first/

Again, that doesn't justify his much worse violence, but it shouldn't be ignored either. If she doesn't woman up and take responsibility for her own violence then her message will be nothing more than the usual one-sided hypocrisy and double standards. "There is no excuse for domestic violence" applies to both men and women. Even minor domestic violence often leads to an escalation. The mass media totally ignores the whole truth on this issue, because it sells better when it's all about women. Only the BBC News has become honest. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/02/men_who_face_domestic_abuse.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/health/newsid_7878000/7878698.stm

Male abuse is 'being ignored'
By Jim Reed
Newsbeat reporter

Men in their early 20s are just as likely to be abused by their partners as women, according to the latest government figures seen by Newsbeat.

6.4% of men in England and Wales between the ages of 20 and 24 say they were victims over the last year, compared with 5.4% of women.

My mom always told me to keep my hands to myself. If you hit someone else, expect to get hit back. Has worked for me all my life. That being said, if someone else hits you first, defend yourself by any means necessary. Or like mom also told me, "If a man hits you first, pick up something and bust his brains out!"(LOL)

I have seen many, many women with injuries sustained by their male abusers and very, very few of the same injuries on men. It seems like the men justify the beatings by saying "she started it." Oftentimes I believe that if the female hits the male first, he feels that now he has the right to beat the crap out of her. Let's hear it from the abused women...

A 5'4" woman takes a slap at her verbally abusive 6' boyfriend and he punches her back a few times and she should "woman up" because she started it? OK guys, as soon as she gets out of the hospital. But sure if the roles are reversed, you just don't see the reverse that often.

Tana said: " and she should "woman up" because she started it?"

No, Tana, read again. She should woman up ABOUT HER VIOLENCE. She is not mentioning it. You don't hit your partner, PERIOD. It causes escalation. It's part of the cycle. Even a large man has emotions. NO he should not hit back but why should her violence be IGNORED like this? It has nothing to do with justifying one over the other. By covering up half the problem, the problem only continues. This is a GLOBAL problem that will never end until we're HONEST about it. Covering up half of it, or any amount of it, will never solve it.

Grady said: "I have seen many, many women with injuries sustained by their male abusers and very, very few of the same injuries on men."

One third of the injuries happen to men but men are 9 times less likely to call police and 5 times less likely to tell family and friends. So you won't hear about it as much. But the research is solid. And why should injuries be all that matters? Even non-injurious DV escalates and is emotionally harmful (nobody seems to care how Chris felt when she was assaulting him, somehow male feelings don't count), and CHILDREN are emotionally damaged just by seeing it, REGARDLESS of injuries.

"It seems like the men justify the beatings by saying "she started it." Oftentimes I believe that if the female hits the male first, he feels that now he has the right to beat the crap out of her. Let's hear it from the abused women..."

Again, the point is that BOTH need to be talked about, but the mass media is not, and Rihanna is not. That's called HYPOCRISY.

They both disgust me.

KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF! Especially if you know the other person can kick your ass! Common sense people.
BTW: I know women who started crap (often), I know women who did nothing to start it (just involved with a**holes), I know women who wouldn't put up with it and women who kept going back for more or stayed and put up with it. I even knew a girl who thought it was okay to brag about it, "He only does it cause he works out of town on the weekend and he knows I won't go out to clubs with a black eye and mess around on him." Her exact words. I'll never forget them or how stupid she looked saying them.
Maybe it's time to stop laying the blame on men ONLY. Sometimes the woman should "woman up". Not every woman is in the right just because she is smaller or whatever. Take responsibilty for your own actions, MALE or FEMALE.

The double standard is incredible. People who say it's ok to ignore Rihanna's violence would never say that if the genders were reversed. If he had only slapped her but she was not hurt, and then she hurt him badly in response, say with a knife or however way, these same people would certainly be mentioning Chris' violence no matter how slight. But when Rihanna slaps Chris around, somehow they think it's ok to ignore it because he was not hurt. What hypocrisy.

Healing from this kind of gender war requires that we talk about it HONESTLY.

Honesty is definitely the problem. Most automatically assume the woman is a victim just because she lost the fight she may have started.

Hey, dumba**...Rhianna was born in England, her name dates back to the time of the Druids and if you hate American women so much, go back to your third world country and marry a man.