A big thank you to @thebettinaarndt, who’s picked up the baton on this one, and from whose account I got this update! The Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) have just been brought into a senate committee to answer questions about their 2025 headline grabbing report that found “one in three men admit to perpetrating partner violence”. Why? Well, because the same study also found that 31% of men experienced abuse, and yet made little to no effort to highlight such an important ‘gender symmetry’ fact. Worse, on top of burying this finding, the report actively removed the data on men who were ‘victims only’, presumably so they could continue to paint a one sided ‘gendered’ narrative… that doesn’t really exist. The report also used a breathtakingly low bar for ‘intimate partner violence’, asking participants: “Have you ever behaved in a way to make your partner afraid or anxious?” And if you answer ‘yes’, even having done this just once in your life – congrats, you have now perpetuated ‘intimate partner violence’. Which his absurd. I’d love to ask if any of the authors of this ludicrous study, have ever made their partner feel anxious, which surely, like all of us, they have – and why they chose such an obscenely low and vague criteria to establish intimate partner violence. Despite sending the online world into fits of outrage, with sensational headline grabbing claims; through and through the study is flawed. It is highly misleading in the data it presents, or omits, with the outrage and fear it instilled in the public, generating a huge amount of heat… but not very much light. So who will call out this study – one supported by our old pals at Movember no less – and will any of its authors have the guts to admit how they misled the world? What do you think? ~ Full Bettina Arnt video https://tinyurl.com/5aaa67rr

2025-10-20