Gay/whore kids are the female version of funko pops
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Every time this is mentioned I wonder if it's actual abuse rate or just report rates. If women are the more likely partner vs men to report domestic abuse, real or made up, then a pairing of two women are unsurprisingly going to result in lot more reports because modern society has not only moulded them to wield these accusations as weapons but also provided the very weapons and infrastructure through kangaroo courts to do so with little to no cost even when making shit up.
It may still be a true statement, in part because men are likely also under-reporting abuse for a whole list of reasons, so women having a higher threshold to both report on actual events as well as making shit up means lesbians are always going to be top of the pile when it comes to this.
tl;dr I think the actual numbers are far, far murkier than any initial glance offers. Men probably under-report, women probably over-report, and women also probably flat out make up reports. All of which means lesbian numbers score highest.
The weird thing is that lesbians aren't actually the top of the pile. Bi women are. You'll notice though that these stats are never presented in a per-partner fashion and are always something like: "experiencing intimate partner violence in their lifetime." So if one group has more partners, they'd have the higher lifetime DV stat all else being equal.
Then the obvious question is "why aren't gay men #1?" Probably a mix of DV not being likely in casual encounters, men reporting far far less, and men knowing that they'll get hit back if they start shit.
I actually agree with all of this, even if it dulls the edge of a talking point I love to bring up. At the very least though, even with all this considered, I think it is easily justifiable to say that the level of dysfunction in lesbian relationships is greater than any other style of pairing, since even if they're just bullshit reports, the level of bullshit reports is higher than others.