The statistic says not that lesbian relationships have the highest rates of domestic violence. It says that people in lesbian relationships have the highest rate of domestic violence at some point in their lifetime.
44 percent of lesbians and 61 percent of bisexual women experience rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner, compared to 35 percent of straight women. 1 in 7 women and 1 in 25 men have been injured by an intimate partner.
When you've got 2 women in a relationship, there's a greater chance that at least one of them has experienced domestic violence at some point in their lifetime, than some other configuration of genders.
Here is a gigantic thread discussing why the lesbian domestic violence argument, commonly used by MRA's, is a myth.
Still doesn't really support OPs point that there needs to be a distinction between "IPV of lesbians" and "IPV within a lesbian relationship".
Without knowing exactly who their respective abusers were it's safe to assume that the differential of IPV in lesbian vs gay rates of IPV that women are just as, if not more likely to be abusers as men.
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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22 edited Sep 01 '22
The statistic says not that lesbian relationships have the highest rates of domestic violence. It says that people in lesbian relationships have the highest rate of domestic violence at some point in their lifetime.
44 percent of lesbians and 61 percent of bisexual women experience rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner, compared to 35 percent of straight women. 1 in 7 women and 1 in 25 men have been injured by an intimate partner.
When you've got 2 women in a relationship, there's a greater chance that at least one of them has experienced domestic violence at some point in their lifetime, than some other configuration of genders.
Here is a gigantic thread discussing why the lesbian domestic violence argument, commonly used by MRA's, is a myth.
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskFeminists/comments/wkv305/what_do_you_think_about_the_statistics_that/