Granted, that sometimes women physically attack men. By far, more often, men physically attack women. The operative word here is 'physically attack'. The way the law reads on such actions is that a physical attack must appear imminent, or already carried out, before physical counterattack is acceptable.
It's much easier to say that a physically abused woman should move out of the environment wherein herself and/or children are being endemically abused. It is not so easy to do. Case histories are witness to this dilemma.
Regarding 'conditioning'.
Of course their are positive facets to public access and cable TV. Depending on the programming, TV is a miraculous instrument of constructive education and recreation. Whereas, about 75% of the programming is only of little or no constructive value, it promotes an appetite for unredeemed violence and 'humor' that isn't funny. Repeat, the key to brainwashing is repetion. Draw you own (Columbine High School/McDonald's Massacre, post office and work place, drive-by-shooting legacied) conclusions.
('The climb rate is actually going down'. A popular American, Orwellian inspired prevarication. Combined with, "It only looks like it's going up, because the population is increasing, and, people are reporting crimes more."
A) As regards the 'increased population' premise. The false premise is that crime increases proportionate to population: The true fact is, Tokyo, Japan is the most - per demographic capita - densely populated location in the world; whereas, its violent crime rate is among the lowest in the world. Yes. It is a different culture (although it is rapidly becoming Americanized and it's crime rate is beginning to show it...); but, until if and when Japanese are proven not to be human beings (or the Japanese males are proven to have less or no testosterone), the premise that crime automatically and proportionately goes up with population is (racist tainted) bonkers.
B) 'People (female victims and children) are reporting crime more than they used to'.
Does this mean that the bodies use to be stacking up in the streets and restaurants and schools and post offices and work places and churches and homes just as much in the past as in the present, but, the piles of bodies weren't being reported accumulating in those locations, where the janitor just swept them up while people walked around the roped off area until it was tidied up?
The lowering climb rate would plunge to zero if the whiners and complainers and newspapers would just shut the flock up? STAMP OUT VICTIMS for a better Amerika! (?)
Moreover, The Fastest Growing Violent Crime In America abounds with case histories at least partially generated by the fact that the average 18 year old American youth has artificially experienced between 15,000 and 30,000 documentary video/filmed or realistically replicated events of extreme violence including rape.
Until the age of TV (and to a much lesser extent, movies, prior to TV), a person had to occupy approximately the same space and time of an event, in order to experience it. With the exception of high statistical spikes of warfare, the average person witnessed an estimated dozen or less acts of deliberate or inadvertent extreme violence in a lifetime.
This went on for about 99.99% of the three and one half million year age of the human species. The .01% is anamolous experience (since artificial reality laced with morbid preoccupation with death <Orwellian DEATHSPEAK> and recreational violence <Re: 'ElectroniColiseum'> which inevitably desensitizes and normalizes the healthy aversion from and avoidance of violence, and dilates the recreational indulgence in violence, as a passive, 'uninvolved' <physio-chemically barnstormed, impotent, popcorn & pretzel eating, coffee, tea, milk, beer or hard drink imbibing>) witness.
Refer: 'Desensitisation'.
Normalization of the anomalous.
Unredeemed violence as entertainment.
Encouragement of self-empowerment via disempowerment of others.
The universal icon of a caveman with a club over his shoulder while dragging into his lair a woman with a bump on her head has no evidence to support it. It is a case of modern man blaming 'instinct' for socially acquired behavior. We know some of the tools used by neandrathals, and some of their raimants and there is evidence that they did not abandon but rather cared for their ill and injured; we know some of their burial rites and hunting tactics. But we know very little about their behavior in general. Men are generally physically stronger than women to enable men to protect and provide for women and children. Times and technology has basically changed all that. Yet still, the neandrathal man with a club in one hand and a woman with a bump on her head being dragged by the hair in the neandrathal man's other hand is familiar to all civilized people. Until further notice, it is one of the biggest lies originating from the circle of male brutality towards women.
Steering the biological imperative of 'will to power' to the random, opportunistically advantaged occasion of unfounded self aggrandizement at the inappropriate, sadomasochistically motivated expense of others. Encouraging the bully mentality - as a rule, bullies do not target people who may best them physically, no, bullies are usually male and they characteristically target women and children. To acquire a feeling of self empowerment by disempowering others. The anomalous male oracle, the Amerikan way. Women who practice these methods are aping and endorsing amok male behavior. A well balanced adult male is generally very restrained about doing physical violence to women and/or children. It's about morality, nobility, self respect and common sense (downsliding values, to be sure...).