Statistics, produced by the ManKind Initiative which campaigns for male abuse victims, show that 38 per cent of domestic abuse victims are male.
Mark Brooks of the Mankind Initiative, a helpline for victims, said: "It's a scandal that in 2010 all domestic violence victims are still not being treated equally.
She called her dogs "little people with fur," until Mr. Millan told her this might be "good therapy for the mankind, but not for the dog kind".
Brook could get the ball rolling by making an unequivocal public apology for her violence against men and a donation the size of a Lynx contract to the ManKind Initiative.
The ManKind Initiative, which runs a national helpline for male victims of domestic violence and abuse, spoke out last week about its disappointment at the lack of public backlash.
Former president Jacques Chirac had purloined half of its collection for his grand legacy project, the Quai Branly museum of arts and civilisations, leaving the mankind museum without a raison d'être.
One of the most reassuring developments in recent years has been the growth and emergence of charities such as the ManKind Initiative and Abused Men in Scotland, who have helped to push the needs of male victims up the public and political agenda.
Perhaps the single most encouraging statement I heard at the conference was Mark Brooks of domestic violence charity the Mankind Initiative stressing that they only ever argue for male victims to be helped in addition to, never instead of, services offered to women.
