It's probably not your actual intention, but this highlights how domestic violence or rape apologetics are socially acceptable when it's female -> male.
Consider the amount of female->male violence in an actual domestic setting that's acceptable in fiction as comedy. Then consider Tropes vs Women claiming killing some female enemy in a sci-fi/fantasy game is symbolic of domestic violence against women. If it's female->male domestic violence they don't even have to be symbolic, you have the wife or girlfriend beating the guys head in right on camera, and that's the moment you're meant to laugh your head of, it's codified as a comedy moment. This puts in doubt whether violence vs women is really coded so strongly into the media like Tropes vs Women claims. If anything, violence against women in fiction has always been taboo, and it's only since the breakdown of patriarchy that this taboo has been explored for shock value.
I... think that last bit would be difficult to argue. Remember how there was a not so long ago era where every film had a gratuitous moment of a man "smacking some sense" into a woman? And if you want to go really far back, a lot of ancient legends and stuff really casually refer to rape.
As for the woman on man violence stuff, my view is that it clearly happens, and we clearly have no idea how much it happens given that male victims of sexual assault are even less likely than female victims to come forward.
That survey question you reference is interesting but dangerously generalized. For all we know, 99% of the people who answered "yes" had sex with a tipsy person once, and the other 1% are serial rapists. It also seems likely that the genders had different ideas of what was "bad" enough to warrant answering yes to that question.
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