Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihlpg!sed408 From: sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (s. dugan) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Re: \"Why not send the men home?\" Message-ID: <486@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-May-85 10:28:03 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.486 Posted: Thu May 16 10:28:03 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 17-May-85 01:25:03 EDT References: <1848@decwrl.UUCP> <423@sftri.UUCP> <1467@reed.UUCP> <224@ihlpa.UUCP> <> <130@galbp.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 12 > In article <> san@peora.UUCP (Sanjay Tikku) writes: > > I was wondering if the reverse exists - maybe not in an identical fashion > > but in a similar way ? Is there a study done or anything to support that > > wives also abuse their husbands. > > Yes there are women who physically abuse their husbands. The reason we usually don't hear about it is that the men are afraid of how it would make them look. (You know, "What kind of a sissy man would get beat up by a woman?") Sarah E. Dugan (no clever lines)