Quote #1: Dr Graham-Kevan said: "We wanted to find out whether men's use of controlling behaviour within a relationship is different to women's. This is important as the current treatment approach in the UK is based upon the premise that men use control as a means of enforcing male supremacy over women. If women are using controlling behaviours in similar ways to men then this undermines such an approach."

Quote #2: Male and female domestic violence perpetrator reports of controlling behaviour across samples from the UK (36 men and 50 women), and the USA (231 men and 184 women) were compared. The results found that the controlling behaviour of men and women were very similar. "Men and women perpetrators of domestic violence were found to have very similar levels of financial control, sexual control and intimidation in relationships. This leads us to believe that we can't only attribute controlling behaviour to
men."

Quote #3: "The results of this study tell us that we need to challenge some of the assumptions around domestic violence if we are to really tackle the issue and develop programmes that prevent continued violence, one such assumption is that controlling behaviour in relationships is unique to men."

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Here's what ideologically-driven, man-hating feminists are saying about this report:

1. Karen Henning: Another Study to avoid Looking at Men's Violence. Another Study to muddy the waters and avoid looking at the violence of Men... and how it relates to Male supremacy.

2. Martin Dufresne: found this juxtaposition very telling of the author's agenda: "...it was found that 10 per cent of the female victims had hit out first during the violent episode." (...) ""It seems that once a punch is thrown, whether it is from the man or the woman, then all acceptable behaviour goes out of the window," continued Dr Graham-Kevan."

3. Stephen McArthur: In the last few weeks I have had the privilege to hear Eve Ensler, Lundy Bancroft, and Gloria Steinhem speak and each of them spent time addressing the backlash against the movement to end men's violence against women, and Lundy spoke specifically about the well-organized, internet active, men's supremacy movement which, by the way, will exploit this study for all it's worth. The meaning, impact and intent of women's violence is clearly different from men's, especially in the context of domestic and sexual violence. This perverse distortion of reality only serves sexism and men's continuing oppression of women. The next thing they'll have you believe is that most rapes are committed by women, that war is waged mostly by women, and that a culture of female violence is at the root of most of the violence in our lives. - Stephen McArthur, Violence Prevention Educator & Hotline and Court Advocate, Battered Women's Services & Shelter, Washington County, Vermont, Leadership Forum, Vermont Approach to Ending Sexual Violence, Member, Vermont Sexual Violence Prevention Task Force