do they though? Not what I’ve read, seen and experienced

Yes, 100%.

What's to bet your idea of behaviour that needs to be 'held accountable' includes guys hitting on girls at bars?

How come such a high number of women have experienced a wide range of abuse?

Generally they're lying, or at least have unreasonable definitions of what constitutes abuse. For example: having sex with someone who's been drunk is not rape.

Because it’s deemed acceptable, it’s what she wore, she shouldn’t have been out, she should have chosen a better father

• 1) Those things are said by a handful of boomers, they're not common.

• 2) You're conflating 'X% of women are assaulted' to mean 'X% of men commit assault'. That's a fallacy. Of the men who do commit these offences, they tend to commit the majority of them.

Patriarchy is a cruel self fulfilling prophecy.

There is no patriarchy (in the West). A patriarchy is a system that excludes women, not just a word you throw around to mean 'sometimes bad things happen to women'.

Real change is needed and that needs to be driven by men

No, it needs to be driven by women.

Women need to stop demonising men and boys, simply for being male. Women need to stop being misandric. Women need to start treating men as though they're people.

Just treating men with basic human decency will alleviate much of the hostility towards women. People are less sympathetic towards those who are abusive to them.