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.
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.