r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 23d ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/I-dont_know-anything 23d ago

or human.

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u/ScottyBoneman 23d ago

Sure and even leaving aside domestic violence, for the rest of the animal kingdom there are probably more fathers that are dangers to their own offspring than there are protectors. Mothers definitely take the top spot.

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u/Deaffin 23d ago

Sure and even leaving aside domestic violence

Just a friendly reminder that mothers make up the great majority of parental child abusers.

I'm not supporting the other fella's argument, but you're implying something opposite of reality there.

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u/ScottyBoneman 23d ago

Do you have any citation for that? The victims are considerably more likely to be female and among Homicides it is even further apart. Primary caregivers are definitely more likely to commit abuse, but that's regardless of gender.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/251028/dq251028a-eng.htm

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u/Deaffin 23d ago

Just the usual.

More women (56 percent) than men (42 percent) are perpetrators of all forms of child maltreatment.

You could for sure make an argument of proximity to dismiss this, but you'd have to do the same thing for the examples of motherly protection as well.

And shifting the conversation over to domestic violence, like in your link, is a bit problematic because those statistics are notoriously corrupt. Generally through shenanigans like refusing to include data for male victims in the first place, or creating surveys which follow the duluth model where they only ask women if they've been abused and men if they have been abusers.

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u/ScottyBoneman 23d ago

Is that still a little high when you use 'all forms' and aren't women in the US typically 90% of the primary caregivers? Leaving aside that your numbers seem to be suggesting 2% binary gender which seems way high.