>>33931375Lesbian (exclusively female-female) violence is almost certainly higher than heterosexual in all categories, physical, sexual, psychological. Rationalizations on why are hypotheses with little value to overall sociological discourse. The likely reasonable truth is that women are as bad as men, but cannot usually outright physically abuse men due to strength difference. Instead, women tend to be psychologically, emotionally, or financially abusive (an extension of the other two) towards men, with this abuse massively underreported.
There is also a growing consensus that heterosexual male victimization by women tends to be either similarly frequent, with males only tending to rape or cause far more severe injuries (likely because of physical strength).
>https://web.archive.org/web/20150419110147/http://www.springerpub.com/media/springer-journals/FindingsAt-a-Glance.pdfAmong other statistics, ones like these are telling:
>Overall, 24% of individuals assaulted by a partner at least once in their lifetime (23% for females and 19.3% for male)And in many others where rates of abuse are extremely similar in all relationships, with males being slightly more likely to be victimized than women, and the majority of all violence being bi-directional rather than male-perpetrated.
The difference in female-male violence grows significantly the younger the partners are, with high-school/college aged males being more than twice as likely to be exclusively abused by a female rather than to abuse a female. There are also methodological biases against men, outlined in the wikipedia article, which makes collection of this data more difficult. Underreporting, biased data collection, and biased medical professionals.
You are correct that women have more reason to be fearful of men, simply because when men do commit violence, it is much more likely to be extreme violence involving rape, death, or grievous injury.
Anons 1,2,3 are factually correct in their respective statements
