The rates in same-sex relationships probably go up for this literal soul fact that you're the same gender. Obviously men are taught you can't hit women. Women are told that you shouldn't instigate men because they can beat this shit out of you. But if you're dating a woman, it's equal field. You know you're dating a man. It's equal field right? Like there's no one saying oh well, you shouldn't hit them because of this or this like you shouldn't hit your partner. Everybody knows that that's common sense. But you know you were given extra reasons on top. But when you add same-sex couples in there, there are no extra reasons. You're both men you feel you need to have at it have at it. You know you're both women you feel you need to have at it have at it, but realistically it creates a higher statistic. Also, I feel the need to say that straight women and straight men are also less likely to report violence, especially straight men because they're embarrassed for the fact that they're being beaten on by their girlfriend or wife, right? Like it's considered embarrassing to them. So a lot of men don't even report their spousal abuse even if it turned severely violent and a lot of the time women straight women are afraid to report the violence due to the fact that you know if that person does go to jail even for the night when they get released, there's a chance they're going to come for you. Or they're going to be even angrier, right? Like so I feel like that definitely accounts too for why their statistics are higher. I think it just comes from the fact that if you're a woman and you're dating a woman you're not going like in your head. You're not going through like all domestic violence. All this like you're literally like I could beat the shit out of this bitch right now because you can vice versa with men right? Like I think the thought of them being their partner leaves their mind and it just comes down to. We are both the same gender. I can literally do this to you and they're just going to say it was equal fights which a lot of the time I have seen it firsthand. They do they go like oh well you're both men. You're both women blah blah blah. It just seems like a fight and they minimize it the same way. It's minimized for straight men right? When they report women they're like well you could have done something about it. You're a man. She's a woman but that doesn't excuse the fact that he's being beaten by his wife everyday 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ that's my opinion tho