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Originally Posted by Beso

Your post did indeed highlight that.


Any stats on domestic abuse for gay marraige?

That can disprove this https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29994648


Are they right wingers too?

Here are some stats on the lifetime domestic abuse rate:

Women
Heterosexual women: 35%
Lesbian women: 44%

Men
Heterosexual men: 29%
Gay men: 26%

As you can see, gay men face the lowest domestic abuse rates across the board. Lesbian women face higher, but it's important to remember these stats are LIFETIME PARTNERS and I remember reading elsewhere these stats also were including previously relationships with men. Bisexual people actually face the highest level of DV, and I don't know why, it would be interesting to theorise about this.

Many studies how show that relationship satisfaction is greater between homosexual couples than in heterosexual couples, possibly largely to do with a greater equality within the relationship - a greater balance of labour and domestic jobs, etc...

It's important also to remember that homosexual people face much higher rates of depression due to minority stressors.

But more important than that is this: you've glued together two different strands of stats which say two very different things:

- One where I have used stats to show that women are at a much greater risk from their partners than they are from trans women. These statistics are true and paint a real picture of where the risk for women lies within society.

- A stat from this thread (which is what you originally quoted me from which is why I was surprised when you explained which stat you mentioned the mother and son one). What I've spoken about in this thread, and what my comment about the right normalising murder is the statistics that shows extremist politically led violence being higher amongst right-wing than left - and by a fair margin. These stats are completely a different topic to domestic violence, which is, I don't believe, a right/left issue because it's not politically motivated in the way that extremist violence is.

To say that it's enlightening that 41% of right-wing men who were arrested during anti migrant protests in the name of protecting women were known to police because of domestic violence accusations, doesn't mean that left-wing people can't be perpetrators of domestic violence. Of course they can. And yes, there are plenty of gay/lesbian right-wingers.