Domestic violence is too important of a public problem to continue to be a horrific failure of deliberative democracy. Facing fear is necessary.

Lack of aggregate public data limits public accountability for domestic violence policy.

Domestic violence fatality reviews exacerbate unequal protection for men against homicide and support entrenched anti-men gender bias in justice policy.

Data for same-sex and opposite-sex dual arrests indicates domestic violence is relatively mutual and gender profiling men for arrest reduces dual arrests.

Studies of same-sex domestic violence largely conform to the dominant, gender-stereotyping understanding of domestic violence.