#fandom problem 15187

Reply 1 - Anon

"that stupid factoid about "lesbians are the most domestically abusive demographic" my beloathed"

that "fact" is a misinterpretation of many studies that group together bisexual women and homosexual women together as lesbians rather than recognizing the distinction between them. If you actually go and look into the studies, bisexual women experience the highest rate of IPV out of all other sexualities (lesbians, gay men, and bi men), and so when ""lesbian"" couples are surveyed about their experiences with IPV, they almost always specify when given the option that the IPV they experience happen in previous opposite sex relationships rather than being something on going within their current same sex relationship. Lesbians (as in homosexual women and not bisexual women and homosexual women grouped together) experience less IPV than straight women, meaning men are a correlation with increased experiences with IPV. You can also see this reflected in basic crime reports, men commit violent crimes far more often than women do, IPV being one of them. Does this mean that no woman is ever abused by another woman? Of course not, especially because bisexuals as a whole tend to be 50/50 in the sexes they date (no bisexual women and men don't date men more often than they do women, we're not straight girls and gays boys in disguise, that's a biphobic stereotype. again, go look at the research) and despite that, bisexual women still have the highest the rates of IPV. It's not just men abusing us, but women too, even if men abuse us more often. If female-female relationships were void of IPV, bisexuals would still have less experience with IPV than straight women but more than lesbians, yet we have more experience with IPV than either of them. (which also means that if a woman is abused by another woman, it's probably a bisexual woman being abused, not a lesbian)

Reply 1 - rudolphsb9