Original sentence: Domestic violence scholars and advocates have rejected the flawed research cited by men's rights activists and dispute their claims that such violence is gender symmetrical, suggesting that their focus on violence against men stems from a political agenda to minimize the severity of the problem of men's violence against women and children and to undermine services to abused women.Family violence scholar Richard Gelles published an article entitled "Domestic Violence: Not An Even Playing Field" and accused men's rights groups of distorting research findings on men's and women's violence to promote a misogynistic agenda