Ignoring the part that women play in the culture of violence is a bad idea.
Women are taught to reward men who are aggressive and violent. They are taught to stay with those men and to try and change those men. They are taught that it is better to have a strong husband who beats you than a weak one who can't protect you.
Women don't directly perpetrate the violence but they do encourage it constantly and unendingly. They push their boyfriends into getting into fights to defend them, they reward men who will beat up other men and therefore show dominance, and many women are addicted to the emotional high of having a violent partner so they stay with that partner firstly and secondly try to provoke violence in him whenever they are craving an emotional rush.
It's a cultural issue not a male issue. The demonization of men - declaring that men fight the wars, men commit the violence, etc while women are sugar and spice and all things nice is a fabrication that was created to sow discord among the sexes.
Women have always been involved in violence and still are to this day - not as combatants but as cheerleaders. There is nothing that motivates a man more than a female cheerleader. In fact, many men base their entire range of behavior on what impresses women. These men have found that violence and proxies for violence (ie. combative sports) impress women the most.
If all women stood up tomorrow and said, "We will NOT sleep with men who are violent! We refuse!" then violence would stop tomorrow.
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