I hate this so much, whenever you bring up that women also abuse, rape, kill, etc. men that some misandrist idiot inevitably retorts with the usual BS of "But it's not anywhere on the same scale! Men are naturally violent and women all over are afraid for their lives!" Or that when women are violent to men it's done in self-defense and that women being violent to men is trivial and not a serious societal issue compared to the other way around. My head hurts to the point of wanting to explode when I see this garbage. And they bring up statistics but fail to acknowledge and understand that many male victims don't report out of fear of ridicule or not being believed, how female offenders can and often do play victim to make it seem like she acted in self-defense knowing law enforcement will automatically side with her. Also how society is always quick to condemn men being violent to a woman in anyway even when in self-defense and it's completely warranted. And under the VAWA, all violence against men is still counted as being against women and statistics can very easily be warped and manipulated to fit one's agenda. But of course these idiots don't bother to get their facts straight and do research, they just take everything at face value.

It's so infuriating. And don't get me started when they use the "Stop silencing women" arguments, when all we want is for it to be recognized men and boys can also be victims of violence, abuse, rape, etc. by female offenders and it happens much more often than many are aware of. It's just as vile and evil and wrong as when men to it to women and girls. But they intentionally marginalize, trivialize or even outright ignore this. I'm so tired of the one-sided narrative. It's horribly misandrist to men but also equally misogynistic to women in a way in that it infantalizes them and teaches them to be eternal victims and blame their woes on all men. Seems misandrists don't really genuinely care about women, only exploiting bad experiences women have had and using that for their disgusting agenda. It's the kind of nonsense that's the reason we have these pointless, divisive gender wars where nothing gets solved.

And even if female to male violence/abuse/rape/homicide, etc. isn't on the same scale as the other way around, so what? Ignore that it does still happen? Forget that it's often massively underreported due to societal stigma and shame? That women are just as capable of violent, heinous actions as men, against either gender? I hate how this has become a contest as to who does what to who more. Whether it's men against women or women against men or both, it's all equally bad and problematic. It's just another way of deflecting.