Leave it to Wente to unmoor facts from their context and then claim that reality is upside down. She's right, though, that gender stereotypes and a lack of understanding of them, especially as social constructs, are very limiting and damaging to individuals - boys and men as much as girls and women - and to society. But the concrete and measurable harms they cause are not equal. The kind of violence women face is not from strangers so much as people they know (and often trust or love), behind closed doors, with no witnesses. And so it gets vastly under reported and under prosecuted and left out of official figures. Women are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violence. And when it comes to both individual and institutional wealth and power, men still overwhelmingly have it. Wente wold likely have us believe that it's merely a coincidence that, not too long ago, all of this was unabashedly legal and, indeed, vociferously-defended official policy.