The major weakness of these campaigns is of course the fact that they ignore male victims and female perpetrators in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships. Block dismisses those who complain about the problem of ignoring male victims of female abuse. Her article is a mostly positive spin on the feminist effort to present domestic violence as something that men do to women. She is right when she says that domestic violence should be redefined as something more than a women's issue.
Domestic violence is a human problem.
Ignoring half the victims and half the perpetrators won't solve the problem. This may have been true 30 years ago, when Ms. magazine was founded, but it's nonsense today. I can't help hearing echoes of Al Sharpton et al., claiming that racism is worse today than it was in 1955. The campaign's goal has to be to reduce battering, not to make a p.c. point. America needs to stop thinking of women as perpetual victims.