Actresses arrested for abuse highlight false domestic violence narrative

The arrests of two actresses in recent weeks for abusing their partners have shed a spotlight on the false domestic violence narrative pushed by feminist ideology.

Nathalie Fay

36-year-old actress Nathalie Fay was taken into custody last Saturday and charged with domestic battery after allegedly punching her boyfriend in the face. According to a complaint obtained by Entertainment Weekly, an argument began when the boyfriend, Brady, arrived to take The Hangover star to a pre-season football game.

Fay, who also starred in The Blonde and Blonder and Old School, entered the car and began questioning Brady about where he had been before picking her up. She showed him a map on her phone and accused her boyfriend “of being somewhere.” The complaint says that at some point during this argument, Fay punched Brady in the mouth. When he exited the car and tried to walk away, Fay reportedly grabbed his face to stop him from leaving.

Later, Fay admitted to Miami police that she had assaulted her boyfriend but blamed him for the incident, saying “she was in fear as Brady was speaking to her in a bad way.”

Skai Jackson

Earlier this month, former Disney Channel star Skai Jackson was arrested at Universal Studios Hollywood after security footage showed her repeatedly assaulting her boyfriend. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) said Jackson was charged with spousal battery.

“While inside the Universal Studios Theme Park, a domestic incident occurred involving Skai Jackson,” an LASD spokesperson said in a statement. “Based on the initial investigation, it was determined Ms. Jackson was the primary aggressor and was arrested for misdemeanor spousal battery.”

TMZ reported that the charges were later dropped after Jackson’s boyfriend, who showed no signs of injury, refused to cooperate with prosecutors.

A week after her arrest, Jackson posted a video on TikTok in which she posed with a Givenchy handbag outside a shopping center and told her followers to "never depend on a man for anything.”

Myth: Men are more violent than women in relationships

The arrests highlight a decades-old feminist narrative that falsely paints men as the primary aggressors in intimate relationships despite statistics showing a different picture.

A 2017 Australian study, for example, found that men in relationships experience higher rates of emotional and physical abuse than women.

The research is joined by 270 empirical studies and 73 reviews that have found women are at least as physically aggressive as men in relationships. In teenage intimate relationships, girls have been found to be nearly twice as physically violent toward boys than vice-versa. 

Women do, however, sustain more physical injuries resulting from spousal violence than men, though statistics are still surprising. Figures show that just 33% of homicides committed by intimate partners are men. 

Expert: 'Women beat men'

University of Haifa Prof. Zeev Weinstock, considered one of the world’s foremost experts on violence between men and women, reported these controversial findings before the Israeli Knesset in 2017:

For almost 50 years we have known that men's violence towards women takes place in similar proportions to the violence that women use against men in intimate relationships, in almost every culture and society that we know from traditional societies to liberal Western societies.

In addition, we know that in the motivations for violence, there is no difference between men and women. For the same reasons that men beat women, women beat men. The results are different, because of the differences between men and women, and men's physical endurance - they are injured less and therefore arrive less to the emergency rooms. So the visibility of the problem is very high in the case of women, but the motivations and the violent behavior are not a peculiarity of either particular gender.

Weinstock added that the same is true even in Arab societies, despite popular perception, but that "[t]he system today is structured to deal with the violence of men against women, and it does not intervene in cases where women are violent towards men.”

“Even in cases where women are violent toward men, the women are always treated as if they are the victim, and the victim is treated as if he were the aggressor,” he stated.

Indeed, social experiments have found that bystanders who witness a man being physically violent against a woman are more likely to intervene but will stand back and even express amusement if the roles are reversed.

Suppression of research on female aggression

But publishing such findings has become taboo. In 1980, when evidence of equality in intimate violence began to surface and threatened the feminist narrative of an “oppressive patriarchy,” researchers faced abuse, threats, and discreditation from women's advocates.

Researcher Kate Fillion wrote in her 1997 book Lip Service: The Myth of Female Virtue in Love, Sex, and Friendship of a Covidian suppression of scientific evidence:

Currently, findings on all types of female physical and sexual aggression are being suppressed; academics who do publish their research are subjected to bitter attacks and outright vilification from some colleagues and activists, and others note the hostile climate and carefully omit all data on female perpetrators from their published reports.

In a recent interview with Rebel News journalist Avi Yemini, Australian author and commentator Bettina Arndt confirmed that those who try to speak the truth about equality in domestic violence are silenced.

“This is all part of a campaign led by feminist activists who are absolutely now controlling our justice system and controlling our media and . . . they're absolutely silencing anybody who speaks out on this issue,” Arndt said. 

The former sex therapist added that she and other women who have challenged the misandrist narrative have been “virtually canceled.”

“People have learned to keep their heads down and not to talk about it,” she said.

Arndt also alleged there is a government effort to imprison men, which is why more females are placed in law enforcement.

“This is the goal of the feminists: to get more men into prison,” she said, adding: “We have across the country men locked up and it's going up exponentially. A hell of a lot of these men now are being imprisoned without even a trial. They're on remand. I mean it is terrifying what's happening in our justice system.”