Nope, it’s not bullshit, and yes, I have sources to back it up. According to an article in The Guardian (which cites multiple studies), more than 40% of domestic abuse victims are men. In one year, that figure was as high as 43.4%, which is almost (if not quite) half of the total cohort, thus dispelling your notion that female perpetrators are “the exception”. (Please note that I never said the reported figures are exactly even, but simply that women have a similar or the same capacity as men to be abusers.)
Keep in mind that the above can only account for reported cases — who knows how the numbers would change if somehow unreported cases could be considered.
And finally, while I consider myself to be as opposed to violence against women as anyone else, I am very suspicious of political movements that claim to be against violence against women, as those movements seem to have a blind spot when it comes to women who are of any sort of conservative bent. Take, for example, this video, where a female reporter for a conservative media outlet in Canada is physically assaulted by a “male feminist”, while the crowd of women looking on do nothing to help or console her, or even seem to blame her.
And so, if you’re looking for examples of “bullshit”, perhaps you should more closely examine those activist movements who claim to speak for you as a woman.
As for worldwide oppression of women, the original author didn’t make a distinction between domestic abuse in the West and elsewhere — while I agree that any oppression of women and girls needs to be dealt with with urgency, one simply cannot conflate violence against women in the West with violence against women elsewhere, as there are cultural and other factors at play, such as religion. In many of these cases, I suspect, there is a difference in power between men and women in relationships, family structures, and society at large, and women are at risk in those cases not because men are inherently more violent but because they have more power in the overall hierarchy.
The West provides the flip side to this, in that women can be objectively shown to be more willing to be abusive in this society, where they have much more power, thus furthering my suspicion that domestic abuse is about power rather than sex.
