Reddit reviews Behind Closed Doors

In support of OP points in Myth #3:

Forty years ago, the late Suzanne Steinmetz initiated research about husband battering with her seminal article in Victimology:
http://www.papa-help.ch/downloads/Steinmetz_The_Battered_Husband_Syndrome.pdf

Shortly thereafter, Murray Straus joined with Suzanne Steinmetz and Richard Gelles to publish the famous book including their estimate of slightly more DV against men than against women:
https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Closed-Doors-Violence-American/dp/1412805910

Feminist society has thus spent 40 years (!) denying gender symmetry in DV. Straus has, more recently, published more analyses of symmetry and of the reasons for denialism:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.588.4366&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228350210_Gender_symmetry_in_partner_violence_The_evidence_the_denial_and_the_implications_for_primary_prevention_and_treatment