Category: Traditional Masculinity & Femininity

Identity Politics: “Toxic” Masculinity Hoax: More than 50% of Child Maltreatment Perpetrators Were Women: US DHHS

“This report was prepared by the Children’s Bureau (Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This report also is available on the Children’s Bureau website at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/research-data-technology/statistics-research/child-maltreatment“ …More than one-half (53.5%) of perpetrators were women and 45.3 percent of perpetrators were men;…

Identity Politics: “Toxic” Masculinity Hoax: “Hope Solo and the Surprising Truth About Women and Violence” | Time

“…There is little dispute that men commit far more violent acts than women. According to FBI data on crime in the U.S., they account for some 90% of known murderers. And a study published in American Society of Criminology finds that men account for nearly 80% of all violent offenders reported in crime surveys… But…the…

Identity Politics: “Toxic” Masculinity Hoax: Two Studies That Prove Domestic Violence Is an LGBT Issue (The Advocate)

The National Violence Against Women survey found that 21.5 percent of men and 35.4 percent of women living with a same-sex partner experienced intimate-partner physical violence in their lifetimes, compared with 7.1 percent and 20.4 percent for men and women, respectively, with a history of only opposite-sex cohabitation. Transgender respondents had an incidence of 34.6…