We often view sexual victimization and partner abuse as women’s problems, rather than more-women-than-men problems. In doing so, however, we once again treat a statistical sex difference as a Mars-and-Venus difference. Ironically, the tendency to polarize sex differences in this domain is particularly common among gender-role progressives, who usually downplay female-male differences.

— Steve Stewart-Williams A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women (2026)

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