There is a huge gender bias in play. In the US(and probably most other western countries), domestic violence is viewed as only something that men do to women.

There is a huge gender bias in play. In the US(and probably most other western countries), domestic violence is viewed as only something that men do to women. It's treated as a joke when a woman is violent against a man and it's completely ignored that lesbian couples have the same rate of domestic violence as heterosexual couples.