I thought this was consistent with prevaling theories on how sexism works, and how abuse works more broadly? There's a kindergarten-esque explanation of the ph

I thought this was consistent with prevaling theories on how sexism works, and how abuse works more broadly? There's a kindergarten-esque explanation of the phenomenon: humans tend to imitate each other, and we imitate more the people we're around more, and the targets of abuse tend to be around their abusers (or women in an abusive society) so they become like them. It's not entirely accurate, but similar phenomena are known, most infamously the correlation between being abused as a child and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_violence#Intergenerational http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_violence#Intergenerati...