Girls commit dating violence as often as boys, studies show

[nomorenomore08]

28. "...the woman was the perpetrator in 70% of those cases." That in particular is really striking.

Maybe it shows how ingrained the "never hit a girl" taboo (which I would normally consider a good thing) is for many young men.

The thing is though, even if "[o]nly 15% of violent relationships fit the nonreciprocal wife-beater stereotype," those relationships most likely account for a vastly disproportionate number of serious injuries and deaths, for both the reasons I've previously listed - physical size/strength advantage, gun ownership - and others. I'm only speculating on a justification though, because ultimately I agree that our society's and legal system's response to DV thus far has been utterly inadequate on more levels than one. Though admittedly, I have no real solutions to offer there.

And while it's clear that demonizing men as a group, when a minority of their gender commit highly disproportionate levels of violence and abuse, does little to help matters, it's also clear that that segment of the male population - which exists among all races, social classes, etc. - is very dangerous to both women and other men, and must be dealt with as a dire social problem.