You could be forgiven for assuming that the Fawcett Society has acquired full editorial control of the BBC flagship news programme Newsnight. The programme has a long track record of following gender feminist narratives on domestic abuse/violence (DV), presenting DV as solely (or overwhelmingly) a phenomenon consisting of male perpetrators and female victims. And so it was again in this programme. Maybe to give some illusion of balance, one of Jeremy Paxman's interviewees was a man, but he kept rigorously to the feminist narrative line, presumably because - on the evidence of this piece, anyway - his charity derives its income from supporting female victims and/or seeking to change the behaviours of male perpetrators. Then we had Polly Neate of Woman's Aid who -- of course -- also never mentioned female perpetrators or male victims. No mention was made in the almost 12 minute long piece about most domestic abuse being reciprocal, or that in 70% of cases of uni-directional DV - the victims 'take it' or exit the situation - the perpetrators are women.
We're going to file an official complaint against the BBC in relation to the relentlessly biased coverage of DV on Newsnight. We have videos from previous episodes on our YouTube channel.
