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#743 Vibeke Ottesen: The Evolution of Violence, and the Consequences of Banning Abortion

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Women's Violence Isn't Just Physical Violence

There was a limit on what you were describing as violence that I think could have been improved with an evolutionary approach. Women can perform intimate partner homicide, child homicide, intimate partner violence and there's nothing wrong with them. There's no pathology you can refer to. So we're reliving the problem of researching domestic physical violence of the 60s and 70s defining it as something men perform towards women because that's how men are. It's not just a bad thing to have activists within a scholarly field and within research, absolutely not. They have done a lot of work and finally come to the point where it's becoming a general acceptance of that violence isn't just physical.

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