Femme fatale

Reading about domestic violence in Chile one is encouraged by the female activists to believe men are "brutes". Of course the activists is scarred by their own past experience and the tales they hear every day. 
Like bullying the use of force on someone weaker than yourself is cowardice and should be decried in the strongest way possible. Women are deemed weaker than men and although this is not universally true it has sufficient truth to create, in a civilised society a code which says "you never hit a women", no matter what she has said or done.
Within the Chilean household these norms do not appear to be there and men make use of their strength to terrorise the family.

Norms are cultural. 
Andy Capp represented a section of the Yorkshire 'working class' sardonic hedonistic male culture which both loved and derided his female partner who equally kept up a barrage of her own. 
Andy was never violent but he was dismissive in the way he set his boundaries and decried  Flo the opportunity to cross over. 
In his world and he represented many people, there were two parallel worlds, the male and the female. The pub and the whippet racing were his whilst hers were the equally devise world of other women's company where the topics were as alien to the male as chemistry is to the business graduate.
Profiling this division meant that the gender stereotyping in the Andy Capp cartoon was both funny and well understood as a reality to people growing up in that era.
Fast forward to today and we have the pressure of the feminist movement to deny that there is any difference in the two gender specific roles.
It's another issue of accommodation and change which everyone has to go through. We have to accept that violence, usually the preserve of men (although not always) who wish to settle disputes by physical force has become totally unacceptable. Even when pushed to the limit the moment you lay a hand on the other person you are in trouble.
Of course what has been missed is that "violence" comes in many guises. The tongue can be as violent as the fist and just as damaging. There seems no countervailing laws which prevent a violent verbal attack on a person. The drip, drip corrupting of a persons character through years of innuendo or verbal abuse is as much a crime as a good old fashioned punch up.
I suppose it's the price we males pay these days to get on side with the power of femme fatale !!!