I did comment my sentiments earlier, but as a woman who believes in (real) gender equality, I completely agree with you. Nobody wants to admit it, but in Western society today people are far more accepting of woman-to-man violence than the other way around. A girl beating on a guy is 'funny', the guy must have done something to 'deserve it', and the girl is 'strong', 'assertive', 'independent', w.e. They've done social experiments where they've staged a public 'fight' between a girl and her boyfriend, where at one point the girl starts slapping or punching the guy and you know what? Random strangers, onlookers have JOINED IN. Without even knowing what the guy's side of the story is, people have witnessed this stuff and thought 'hell yeah, this chick's really putting this douchebag in his place, he musta done something really awful to deserve this.' Look up the stats: in the US, for example, domestic violence is most often bidirectional (that is, relationships which involve domestic violence usually have both parties being abusive towards one another), and when it is one-directional the abusive partner (and I'm talking about physically abusive here) is twice as likely to be female than male. And yes, I know what everyone is thinking, women can't hit that hard so cut them some slack - true, which is why according to the stats women don't usually hit with their fists - they make up for their physical weakness by picking up a nearby weapon: a lamp, maybe even a knife. Feminists made a horrible mistake when they made domestic violence all about women being poor helpless victims. Now society condemns male-to-female violence, and glorifies female-to-male violence. It's sexist and it's sick.