Woman Bites Man – Newspaper Calls it Domestic Violence

Is this a misprint?  The headline of this article reads "Lakeport Man Assaulted in Domestic Violence Incident" (Lake County News, 7/18/09)  I read the article and, sure enough, police were called to a couple's house on a DV report, found that a woman had bitten her ex-husband when he dropped off the kids, arrested her and charged her with domestic violence.

Now, what you'll immediately notice is that the article reporting on the incident appears in a small county newspaper in northern California.  It sometimes happens that reporters for that type of paper haven't learned journalistic basics.  Therefore, they don't understand that violence by a female intimate partner against a male intimate partner is never referred to as domestic violence in the mainstream press.  If that rule is ignored, it's hard to maintain the pretense, long disproven by decades of social science, that all DV perpetrators are men and all DV victims are women.

Hey, accidents happen sometimes.

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