I understand the phenomenon of cowardly men beating up on women, because they can, because they need to feel powerful, where they feel powerless over other men. But I don't think the reverse is true. If they feel they have enough power to be aggressive towards men, what's to stop them behaving likewise to women? Look, I don't think most men are violent towards either men or women. And some men may peacock around with other men, and be very protective of behavior towards women. But we're talking about a lack of impulse control where aggression is concerned, leading to violent behavior, which does translate to domestic violence and sexual violence. There is a correlation.
Men are more likely than women to perpetrate nearly all types of interpersonal violence (e.g. intimate partner violence, murder, assault, rape). While public health programs target prevention efforts for each type of violence, there are rarely efforts ...
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The important section:
"Finally, there is substantial evidence that perpetrators of one type of physical violence are more likely to perpetrate other types of violence (
O'Donnell et al., 2006;
Ozer et al., 2004;
Swahn et al., 2008). When considering the main risk factors for physical violence perpetration, we see that most risk factors are associated with more than one type of violence and those factors are typically more prevalent among males (
Foshee et al., 2015;
Wilkins, 2014)."
As I said above, it's not for me to judge Zverev and his behavior in his private life. Though, being accused more than once of domestic partner violence is does raise questions. As you say, though, the accusation leaves a stain, so it seems wise to keep one's opinions to one's self. It bothers me, though, when
@Front242 dismisses them as "gold diggers," which he did a couple of weeks ago. There is no evidence to suggest that either woman was looking for "hush money," or that they received any. For myself, I judge him by his on-court behavior. In the incident in Mexico, they were right to throw him out of the tournament. I thought what he did was wholly inappropriate, poor sportsmanship, and abusive. I can also judge him on bratty behavior on court, and in terms of his game, which I'm not a fan of.
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