Why am I always reminded here on DU that women can be abusive just like men?

[pnwmom]

82. Most criminals who are involved in violent crimes are male.

This is not because there is an "understandable reluctance to report."

Of course there are some men like you who might not report an attack by a significant other. But men are far more likely to assault their partners than to be assaulted, just as they're more likely to commit violent crimes, period.

http://www.wikigender.org/index.php/Gender_and_Crime

In general, women tend to have relatively high arrest rates in most of the same crime categories for which men have high arrest rates. For example, rates of homicide are small for both sexes (about 17 offenders for every 100,000 males, about 2 offenders per 100,000 females), as compared to larceny rates, which measure about 800 offenders per 100,000 males and 380 offenders per 100,000 females. Women commit violent acts once for every 7.15 times that a man commits a violent act.Women are less likely than men to use a weapon such as a blunt object, knife, or firearm in the commission of a crime: 15% of women do while 28% of men do. Women are more likely than men to have had a prior relationship with their victims, 62% versus 36% (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2001).