Ever wonder why people claim men are responsible for more violent crime than women? Ever think maybe it is because when a woman is violent people dont even see it as violence. The same behavior from a man that would wind him up in jail, if committed by a woman is likely to just be idle amusement for onlookers. It certainly wont end in an arrest.

This isnt that different from the bias we see when talking about crime rates among minorities. Yes, they do show higher crime rates. But that is likely more about the discrimination against them then it is about their natural tendencies.

A video to demonstrate this point: youtu.be/dtVHnZX8E50

@freemo The reaction threshold for woman->man violence is higher. She does hit like a girl, after all. Some passers-by checked out the actual damage the guy received, which was basically none. Of course, this is still discrimination but I feel it needed to be said.
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@Corfiot They specifically ensured the man was weaker than the woman in the fights between them and in the other fights the man stronger than the woman. So your concerns were already normalized for.

As for "checking the damage". while you were right th man received no damage int he fight where the woman was the victim she also received no damage. They were careful to ensure the fights were equal in both these regards.

So to me your points seem unfounded.

@freemo It felt to me the man->woman violence was more pronounced. I didn't quite understand what you meant about man/woman being stronger.

I'ts not a big deal, I agree with the main point of the video, just thinking it's not exactly expert peer-reviewed scientific method, is it. Its main goal is to cause discussion more than anything else.

@Corfiot@pleroma.well it is certainly not expert of peer reviewed. While the experiment has been done many times by many people im not sure off hand of any good peer reviewed papers that do any tests like this that I know of either way. So in the absense of such papers we are left to draw conclusions from less formal evidence.

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