I think this sort of thinking is very common, actually, but it's definitely to your credit that you can see that there's a problem with thinking this way. It's interesting that you should bring this up actually -- I was doing some reading on domestic violence against men just a couple of weeks ago, and was thinking of doing a comic on the topic. For anyone who's interested, I'm going to post a couple of links to articles I read. Both pertain to the murder of Phil Hartman -- the first holding the incident up as an example of domestic violence against men, and the second lamenting the fact that most of the media completely failed to recognize the fact this was domestic violence, since it was committed against a man instead of a woman.Penner Theologius Pott wrote:NOW - what interests me is what this says about our perception of gender stereotypes (or, unfortunately, about my own) - that I would read a male being struck by a female as humorous and that I would read a female being struck by a male as abusive. Okay, maybe what I'm really horrified by is what this says about myself, but I'm curious if anyone else feels this way
http://incestabuse.about.com/library/we ... 053098.htm
http://abusedmen.com/essays/The_Death_O ... rtman.html