I think we need to as a society stop dignifying the "rough sex defense" where men claim to "accidentally" kill women during sexual encounters.

This is basically claiming they are ignorant of their own strength and it is just too easy to accidentally kill poor, fragile women- just as Lennie in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men would accidentally pet the mice too hard and kill them. For those of you who did not have to read this in high school- https://youtu.be/DCM-sEpyh1Q?t=120

Dominant women do not accidentally brutalize men to death during BDSM encounters. It's actually pretty easy to not accidentally kill other people during an intimate encounter.

This "rough sex defense" is a male-originated fallacy that is supported by other males in positions of power such as law enforcement, the judicial system, etc. and it needs to be called out and ridiculed as the nonsense it is. I propose that the "rough sex defense" be renamed The Lennie Defense.