Jacqui Smith and the abuse of women

Well, it would seem that Jacqui F**king Smith thinks it is acceptable to hit men. I have just been reading an article in the times which talks about some preliminary survey findings from a home office survey on violence and abuse against women.
Now, as you will know from previous posts I am all for ending violence against women, but more than that I don't think violence against anyone is acceptable. Yes, there is a great deal of abuse which affects women, FGM, forced marriage, domestic violence, rape, sexual assault - but males also suffer from these problems, and while male circumcision may not be as severe as FGM it is still inherently wrong to mutilate the genitalia of a child because a magic book tells you to. Not to mention that there is very little support for male victims of any kind of sexual or domestic abuse and that men seeking help are often not taken seriously and in some cases may even be arrested themselves.
I think it is either incredibly naive, or just plain ignorant to assume that only women suffer from these problems and to deliberately not include any strategy for helping male victims. Surely the government should be looking at ending all sexual and domestic violence, not just that aimed at women?
Smith also suggests that there should be some kind of national database of male domestic abuse offenders who have been arrested or charged so that women, on meeting a new bloke can find out if he has ever been taken in by the police regarding domestic abuse. WTF? That seems really worrying to me - how long before we need state permission to have a relationship? And again, why is it only men that can be abusers? If we have equality (which we don't) then shouldn't female abusers be regarded as seriously as male abusers?
Not that the survey is particularly well designed in any case - take a look for yourself, it is still open. The questions are unclear and misleading at times, and while age and gender are requested there is no place to confirm religious affiliation, something that I would have liked to see included especially given some of the responses (check out the results so far to see what I mean.)
Anyway, take a look for yourself and make up your own minds.
Personally it just makes me despise Ms Smith that little bit more.