I call this phenomenon "the filter". Women know men can physically defeat them. But they view fellow women as equal and more easily dominated violently. The violent women who wouldn't try with a man now goes after another woman. Men know they are physically matched and it is a higher risk to go at each other. The men also no longer have to deal with female gate keeping sexual instincts, so they all have the filter removed and fuck each other's brains out 24/7.
There may be something to that, but I think overall it's more simple: women don't face consequences for "small" displays of violence, and they're less in control when emotional. Culturally, how often do you see slapping represented as an acceptable response from a woman to something a man says or does? TV/movies are riddled with it.
When it comes to the unusually high rate of violence between lesbians, I think that's mostly just a product of there now being two women whose violent responses have been normalised. On top of that, throw lesbian bed death into the mix for some extra frustration and volatility.
It's actually even simpler than that: men are biologically designed to protect and procreate with women. Women are biologically designed to compete with each other to acquire the best male protector.
Left to their own devices, women have no filter to restrict themselves from violence toward one another the way men generally prevent themselves from doing harm to women.
Probably part of it, but I'd argue it's more important to note that in roughly 70% of all Domestic Violence, women are the initiators of DV. Including that in the equation, it quickly becomes apparent that the issue is in fact women often starting fights without realising that they have no real way to end said fights and then crying victim, which is what happens in most cases since most DV is reciprocal in nature, not one directional. Take women OUT of the situation entirely, like between gay men, and suddenly the DV drops through the floor.
The idea that men are aggressive towards their loved ones is disgustingly overblown and not at all based in reality, but the media has portrayed it like this for decades to the point that it's just accepted on a subconscious level that that's the way it actually is, and it simply isn't. I partially also blame the adoption of the Duluth Model for this in regards to arresting guidelines, which was adopted after mandatory arrests for DV calls (something advocated by Feminists at the time) resulted in a massive increase in women being arrested, so they needed a new model that would arrest men instead.
Nah, I doubt it. Probably has some level of that, but it'd probably be a mixed bag. Just because the cliche that most people think of regarding DV is overblown doesn't mean it doesn't happen at all.
I call this phenomenon "the filter". Women know men can physically defeat them. But they view fellow women as equal and more easily dominated violently. The violent women who wouldn't try with a man now goes after another woman. Men know they are physically matched and it is a higher risk to go at each other. The men also no longer have to deal with female gate keeping sexual instincts, so they all have the filter removed and fuck each other's brains out 24/7.
There may be something to that, but I think overall it's more simple: women don't face consequences for "small" displays of violence, and they're less in control when emotional. Culturally, how often do you see slapping represented as an acceptable response from a woman to something a man says or does? TV/movies are riddled with it.
When it comes to the unusually high rate of violence between lesbians, I think that's mostly just a product of there now being two women whose violent responses have been normalised. On top of that, throw lesbian bed death into the mix for some extra frustration and volatility.
It's actually even simpler than that: men are biologically designed to protect and procreate with women. Women are biologically designed to compete with each other to acquire the best male protector.
Left to their own devices, women have no filter to restrict themselves from violence toward one another the way men generally prevent themselves from doing harm to women.
Probably part of it, but I'd argue it's more important to note that in roughly 70% of all Domestic Violence, women are the initiators of DV. Including that in the equation, it quickly becomes apparent that the issue is in fact women often starting fights without realising that they have no real way to end said fights and then crying victim, which is what happens in most cases since most DV is reciprocal in nature, not one directional. Take women OUT of the situation entirely, like between gay men, and suddenly the DV drops through the floor.
The idea that men are aggressive towards their loved ones is disgustingly overblown and not at all based in reality, but the media has portrayed it like this for decades to the point that it's just accepted on a subconscious level that that's the way it actually is, and it simply isn't. I partially also blame the adoption of the Duluth Model for this in regards to arresting guidelines, which was adopted after mandatory arrests for DV calls (something advocated by Feminists at the time) resulted in a massive increase in women being arrested, so they needed a new model that would arrest men instead.
Yeah, and I suspect that the 30% where they don't initiate the violence, the man's been nagged at for an hour straight and loses his temper.
Nah, I doubt it. Probably has some level of that, but it'd probably be a mixed bag. Just because the cliche that most people think of regarding DV is overblown doesn't mean it doesn't happen at all.