Erin Pizzey

Erin Pizzey has certainly paid the price for honesty when I comes to Domestic Violence. Once praised and championed by feminists for opening the worlds first shelter for female victims of  Domestic Violence she soon became banished, exiled and threatened with her life, for showing the same care for male victims as well.
Born 19 February 1939, she opened Chiswick Women's Aid, in 1971, the organisation known today as Refuge. The reason that Pizzey became the subject of death threats was because of her belief that violence in the home is reciprocal and that women are just as violent as men. She based this on the experiences she faced in the refuge and in the film The Red Pill, footage is shown of the women in the refuge admitting to and explaining how they are not only capable of being violent but have demonstrated it in the home. This did not sit well with the feminists who had previously applauded Pizzey for opening the refuge and in Pizzey's words, it was 'militant feminists' who were behind the death threats.
But Pizzey was no stranger to threats as her early life was full of danger due to her father being a diplomat in China during extreme wartime conditions. Pizzey was actually born in Qingdao, China and as a toddler moved to Shanghai, only to be captured by the Japanese when they invaded the city. Luckily they were soon released in exchange for Japanese Prisoners of War.
Soon after establishing her first refuge, Pizzey asserted that much domestic violence was reciprocal with both partners abusing each other in roughly equal measure. She reached this conclusion when she asked the women in her refuge about their violence, only to discover most of the women were equally as violent or more violent than their husbands. In her study "Comparative Study of Battered Women And Violence-Prone Women", co-researched with John Gayford of Warlingham Hospital, Pizzey distinguishes between "genuine battered women" and "violence-prone women"; the former defined as "the unwilling and innocent victim of his or her partner's violence" and the latter defined as "the unwilling victim of his or her own violence." This study reports that 62% of the sample population were more accurately described as "violence prone." Similar findings regarding the mutuality of domestic violence have been confirmed in subsequent studies. This information has been obtained via her Wikipedia page.
Pizzey moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1981 while targeted by harassment, death threats, bomb threats and defamation campaigns. According to Pizzey, the charity Scottish Women's Aid "made it their business to hand out leaflets claiming that [she] believed that women 'invited violence' and 'provoked male violence'".She states that the turning point was the intervention of the bomb squad, who required all of her mail to be processed by them before she could receive it, as a "controversial public figure". Following the abuse and threats in Santa Fe she then moved to Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands then moved to Siena, Italy; finally retuning to London in the late 1990s.
Pizzey has "never been a feminist, because, having experienced my mother's violence, I always knew that women can be as vicious and irresponsible as men". She continues to stand as an advocate for men's issues and her recent appearance in The Red Pill documentary provided a personal insight into her ill-treatment by modern day feminists.
Hats off to Erin Pizzey and thank you for being a survivor against such militant threats from feminists over the decades.