When most Australian women weren’t looking, feminism stopped being about equal rights and opportunities. It morphed into the pursuit of absolute power.

Radical feminism shouldn’t be allowed to hijack our fight against domestic violence.

I recently asserted DV isn’t a male problem, it’s society’s problem; I was called a “misogynist”, “traitor” and “disgrace”.

Believing in equality doesn’t make anyone a misogynist. Contrary to a harmful, brainwashing feminist TV advertising campaign, men aren’t born evil perpetrators.

Bullying is never excusable, despite your cause. Clearly, feminism only cares about women who agree with their agenda.

Both men and women are capable of domestic violence.

The Queensland Government Department of Communities report found that more than one in three domestic and family violence protection orders issued by the Magistrate Court were issued to protect men.

And one in three victims of current partner violence during a 12 month period were male, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

media_camera Where’s the equality in blaming just men for domestic violence? (Pic: iStock)

I was warned to “back off” — so I carried on. I found Erin Pizzey, internationally famous for starting the first domestic violence shelter in the modern world, in 1971. She focused on removing victims of domestic abuse from abusers, breaking the cycle.

Initially aligned with the British Women’s Liberation Movement, she distanced herself upon discovering “its Marxist base”.

In 1974, her mission was hijacked by a gender agenda. “I never saw Women’s Aid as a movement that was hostile to men but militant feminists made it clear that men were the enemy,” Pizzey says.

She continued to open shelters, research, write and maintain dialogue with doctors, researchers and frontline carers with genuine interest in understanding, not blame.

She remained committed to finding root causes despite death threats from militant feminists. She’s written 22 books, most recently This Way to the Revolution, and won awards around the world.

media_camera Domestic violence campaigner and anti-militant-feminist Erin Pizzey. (Pic: Supplied)

In her study titled Comparative Study of Battered Women and Violence-Prone Women, she distinguished between “genuine battered women” and “violence-prone women”.

The study reports 62 per cent of a sample population were more accurately described as “violence prone”. Subsequent worldwide studies have confirmed mutuality of domestic violence.

In her book Prone to Violence, she expressed concern “nobody seemed to genuinely want to find out why violent people treat each other the way they do”.

In 2009 she said she had never been a feminist because “having experienced my mother’s violence, I always knew that women can be as vicious and irresponsible as men”.

Fascinating international research is housed on Pizzey’s website, whose tagline states “Violence has no gender”.

Research includes Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project (PASK), the world’s largest domestic violence research database; 2,657 pages with summaries of 1,700 peer-reviewed studies.

While research on partner abuse has become fragmented and politicised, PASK brings together evidence-based, transparent, methodical knowledge.

Research shows 24 per cent of individuals assaulted by a partner at least once in their lifetime — 23 per cent for females, 19.3 per cent for males.

Read it yourself — fast.

media_camera Erin Pizzey says gendered domestic violence is a fraudulent claim. (Pic: Supplied)

Pizzey is 77, has had a stroke and battled cancer. Speaking to me from her London bedsit financially ruined, heartbroken and hurt she says: “It’s a sad end to a life lived with good intentions...

“Gendered domestic violence is a fraudulent claim. Billions of dollars has been wasted claiming only men abuse women. The roots of domestic violence lay in generational family violence and dysfunction. It’s become the biggest fraudulent movement in history, destroying men’s human rights. Men will die for their country but now have no voice in their own homes. How was this allowed to happen? It’s catastrophic.

“Experience is the architect of the brain. We have to look at violent patterns, teach other strategies for survival, learn how to transcend our background. Statistics show women are far more violent to children.”

We don’t have to believe Erin Pizzey has all the answers, but she has some. Certainly, third wave feminism currently engulfing us isn’t about equality.

Valuable research shouldn’t be silenced because it doesn’t suit a dogmatic feminist agenda.

We want people leading the charge who believe in peace and equality. Where’s the equality in saying, “We stop violence at the source, and the source is men”?

Erin Pizzey tells me: “It’s time to fight back.” She’s right.