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[–]reluctant_commenter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Funny you say that especially considering lesbians have the highest domestic violence and divorce rates within the LGBT,

No they don't. This is a stereotype about lesbian women being violent. Source for your claim?

Here's my source: US CDC National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (2010)

From p. 24/48: There were no statistically significant differences in intimate partner violence experienced (IPV) between the lesbian women and heterosexual women groups, but there were statistically significant differences between the lesbian women and bisexual women, and between the bisexual women and heterosexual women. Elsewhere in the survey it is discussed that much of the violence experienced by the bisexual women was at the hands of men, not women...

There were no statistically significant differences between the prevalence of rape, physical violence, and/or stalking when comparing lesbian women and heterosexual women... [bolded emphasis added]

Lifetime Prevalence of Rape, Physical Violence, and/or Stalking Victimization by an Intimate Partner by Sexual Orientation

  • Physical violence: Lesbian 40.4%, Bisexual 56.9%, Heterosexual 32.3%

  • Rape, physical violence, and/or stalking: Lesbian 43.8%, Bisexual 61.1%, Heterosexual 35.0%

  • With IPV-related impact: Lesbian 33.5%, Bisexual 57.4%, Heterosexual 28.2%

That being said, I don't agree with the comment you were responding to. I am against radical feminism and I don't think children need to be raised in a matriarchy...

edit: *statistically

[–]TransspeciesUnicornI sexually identify as a mythical sparkly equine 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Wasn't there an old study that had deliberately included lesbians being abused by former male partners as "lesbian domestic violence" to intentionally skew the data? Maybe that's what he's talking about.

[–]reluctant_commenter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting, I'll look into it.