In some contexts there’s no doubt you have a point, but liberal western cities I suspect that has no more impact than, say, the tendency of women to underreport domestic and sexual violence. Anyway I would imagine that a bigger factor is criminal perpetrators underreporting their own gayness
And i imagine a lot of gay men have the attitude that if they report intimate partner violence it will come back to hurt them in one way or another.
I know as a trans woman if I were to report violence from a cis woman I’d likely be reframed as the perpetrator and if I were to report violence from a trans woman it would be framed as “trans woman commits violent crime” and used to hurt me.
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In some contexts there’s no doubt you have a point, but liberal western cities I suspect that has no more impact than, say, the tendency of women to underreport domestic and sexual violence. Anyway I would imagine that a bigger factor is criminal perpetrators underreporting their own gayness
I was about to say the same thing. Women will report violence from women, men are going to be less inclined to.
And i imagine a lot of gay men have the attitude that if they report intimate partner violence it will come back to hurt them in one way or another.
I know as a trans woman if I were to report violence from a cis woman I’d likely be reframed as the perpetrator and if I were to report violence from a trans woman it would be framed as “trans woman commits violent crime” and used to hurt me.