We’ve all been there, if you dare mention “male victims“ in a public discussion of domestic abuse, you’ll see the impassioned faces of those around you, turn sour. A solitary finger shall likely be raised and pointed in your face, and wagged with the words of “tiny minority”, or “this isn’t about you”, or the classic, “stop hijacking the discussion!” It doesn’t matter how gently or earnestly you enquire, the outcome is almost always the same. This anger will metastasise in digital form too, again, if you ask why men are so rarely discussed in such spaces. And you can be sure the same conversations, and squarks of outrage, are being had behind the closed doors of of policians too. But the truth, the ugly truth, is self-evident. One in three victims of abuse in the UK is a man, that stat has been published within every ONS report, every year, for decades, and the ideological zealots stamp their feet and shake their fists at the sky each and every time. The ONS have allegedly been lobbied for years to change this, to tweak or ‘enhance’ the survey questions to diminish, or ideally remove this politically-inconvenient ‘one in three’ victim from the numbers, to reveal the so-called ‘true’ numbers of domestic violence. It’s only so long before anyone can cave to the monstrous, and exhausting power of such organisations. And now they have. A few months ago, the Office for National Statistics announced a new ‘enhanced’ methodology of collecting data on domestic abuse, more inline with current definitions, more accurate, sophisticated, and modern then ever. The problem is, whilst it certainly did increase the number of women being abused by nearly 50%… Guess what happened to the men…. Let’s find out. ~ ONS release of new methodology ONS old stats Images by Andrej Lisakov, Dan Dimmock, Sincerely Media and Planet Volumes. #domesticabuseawareness #domesticviolence #mensmentalhealthmatters #menshealth

2025-04-23