You wrote elsewhere on this thread:

> This has the side-effect that real victims are put off from filing charges, which is generally thought to be not a good thing.

Well, this man appears to be a victim who is filing charges. You seem not to consider him a real victim. Don't we want victims such as him to defend themselves? As I understand your quote, you can answer your question better than I can: why didn't you consider him a victim?

You may have other reasons not to consider him a victim than that he is male, but I'm just using your quote to illustrate. A quick search returned this page at the top -- http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/domviol/men.htm. I don't know its credibility, only that it suggests a trend, cites many sources, took less than 1 minute to find, and there seemed plenty more such pages.

He was comparing "real victims" to the "false accusations" in mcappleton's post... not the victim in the original article.

    > You seem not to consider
    > him a real victim

I'm struggling to follow your reasoning there

Because they're apparently sexist idiots like you who don't think men and women should be treated equally? They somehow got the notion stuck in their heads that men just can't be in the victim role when in reality it's not that rare for men to be in that position (Hint: It doesn't get reported because of the exact stigma mentioned above).

Down-voted for "idiots like you". Name calling does not add anything to the discussion.