Dear Abby Highlights Female-on-Male DV
DEAR ABBY: I know most of your readers are women, but could you please spread awareness of female-on-male domestic violence? You have done a great job with male-on-female abuse awareness, and I think American society is fairly well saturated with it. But there is little out there for men who have been or are being abused. — MINNESOTA READER
DEAR READER: Domestic violence is not restricted to any social, racial, religious, economic group or particular gender. And while male victims may be embarrassed to disclose it, men can be victims of domestic violence, too.
Source: http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/
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Not entirely anything new. For the last few years dear abbey has been getting letters accusing her of being biased, after awhile and enough letters from male and female readers she is slowly beginning to reform.
Her general advice though for males is still outright horrible(she often suggests that if a guy is unhappy in a marriage or in a bad situation where his wife could be just using him to “stick it out” or go to counseling; while if it is a wife writing her for advice she suggests she lawyers up asap, but still “try to work it out”).
Dear Abbey is very much into old school gender roles(well when it comes to guy’s) and I would be hesitant to applaud her.