They are part of our families and communities. They are diverse, we can see. Not all of them are violent, and the ones who direcly act with violence are often not violent at all. We don't want to make men violent, or even more violent, especially not against us, by identifying their organized violence,the maleness of their organized violence, and hold them accountable, insist that they dismantle the man-made, male supremacist machine. But herein lies women's violence.
Women have just as much potential to wield weapons, to hate, to dominate, to kill in aggression.
Yet women's violence within this patriarchal machinery is different. Women's violence is one of reaction, not organization. It is violence of accommodation, rather than direct participation. If women's insistence on other women's passivity can be called violence, then women participate in violence. Women are not the decision-makers in this society.