DECEPTION: The Constant Flood of Domestic Violence Commercials and Public Service Announcements that Portray Demonizing Stereotypes of Men and Wrong-H

If you watch any domestic violence video, in commercial form, or even a police training video, you'll notice that the information presented is incorrect, and the man is ALWAYS marked as the villain.

TRUTH:

Women commit domestic violence for the same reasons that men do.
In a study, men and women both gave the same reasons for assaulting their partners. The most common reason was, "to get through to them".
(Carrado, "Aggression in British Heterosexual Relationships; A Descriptive Analysis," Aggressive Behavior, (1996) 22: 401-415.)

BRAINWASHING:
By showing only violent men, and no violent or hysterical women on such ads, they are painting a warped picture of men being monsters and women being saints.

This instills fear and mistrust of men in women.

Since no abusive women are shown in such videos, it re-inforces the "I am woman, I can do no wrong" attitude.

MY SEARCH ON YOUTUBE
Well, I did a search on YOUTUBE for "Domestic Violence". Below are the search results. Each one show:

Whether or not an angry or violent man was shown or implied.
Whether or not an angry or violent woman was shown or implied.
Whether or not a beaten man was shown or implied.
Whether or not a beaten woman was shown or implied.
I also tried to identify which ones had FALSE or MISLEADING statistics in them.

VIEWS	YouTube	Description	Angry Man	Angry Woman	Beaten Man	Beaten Woman	False Stats
285,977	LINK	Australian man hands another man a bat!	Yes	No	No	No	No
58,993	LINK	Movie clip with Farrah Faucet	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
13,432	LINK	Music with pictures of beaten women	No	No	No	Yes	No
70,279	LINK	Rapper on Domestic Violence	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
258,322	LINK	Waitress spills coffee on a man.	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
28,755	LINK	A Woman leaves an abusive relationship.	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
513,969	LINK	Clip from a movie.	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
10,464	LINK	A Woman crying...	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
7,722	LINK	Music Video	?	?	?	?	?
33,675	LINK	Movie Clip - a man abusing a woman	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
???	LINK	Set of Videos about Female Violence	No	No	No	No	No
2,848	LINK	Panel Discussion about Domestic Violence on Children	?	?	?	?	?
1,573	LINK	Two Women talk about Getting Beat Up	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
3,917	LINK	Various Images	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
23,809	LINK	Islamic Sermon about Domestic Violence	No	No	No	No	No
58,533	LINK	Patrick Stewart Domestic Violence	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
???	LINK	Link to Series of Public Service Announcements	?	?	?	?	?
46,325	LINK	Media Hype about Rhianna/Chris Brown	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
4,694	LINK	Text Presentation	No	No	No	No	Yes
110,929	LINK	A Child's Tea Party	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
31,387	LINK	Shows a beaten woman	No	No	No	Yes	No
1,712	LINK	One Woman's Story	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
6,242	LINK	WOW! A Men's Rights Group Sues!	No	No	Yes	No	No
16,087	LINK	Near the end - Its talks about Domestic Violence	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
76,118	LINK	Interview with a Woman	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
9,835	LINK	A Man Getting Hit	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
4,694	LINK	Identical to the one above with 4,694 views.	No	No	No	No	Yes
217	LINK	A Seminar - all female speakers.	?	?	?	?	?
4,596	LINK	Sea-Lion Domestic Violence.	No	No	No	No	No
19,280	LINK	A Fair Approach.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
19,047	LINK	Shows Violent Men.	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
11,906	LINK	Only shows Violence against women.	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
5,607	LINK	Images of Beaten Women.	No	No	No	Yes	No
6,071	LINK	Some more False statistics...	No	No	No	No	Yes
2,110	LINK	More images of Beaten Women...	No	No	No	Yes	No
8,134	LINK	Gay Men Domestic Violence Polar Plunge??	?	?	?	?	?
5,883	LINK	Story of a woman in India.	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
6,511	LINK	Memorial for a Woman.	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
TOTAL			21	2	3	24	6

Here are the stats:

55%	Show or imply an angry or violent man.
5%	Show or imply an angry or violent woman.
8%	Show or imply a man getting hit.
63%	Show or imply a woman getting hit.

And - 18% Have FALSE or MISLEADING statistics!
The problem is, just over 50% of all Domestic Violence is perpetrated by WOMEN!
One thing in particular I noticed: Most videos almost literally show a woman with a halo above her head, and a man wearing demon horns. That is, mis-leading stereotypes of both men and women were being shown in the videos - deragotory ones for men, excessively positive ones for women. Also, the videos rarely showed an argument leading up to violence. Most simply implied that men just hit women for no reason whatsoever. And of course, women never hit men.

Talk about mis-representation!