Maureen: Fleece could have looked up that one. When I sat on the board of directors of a battered women's shelter (as it was called back then) one of the discussions we had is that of same-sex domestic violence and of the rare but real cases of men as the victims of systemic domestic violence - even in heterosexual relationships. It is the denial of such realities that give the extremist right ammunition to distort and deny. Good to see The Advocate grab the issue by its horns.