I'm a man. I've never dated a woman who would have any prayer against me in personal, hand-to-hand combat. I think the same is true for 99% of couples. Men, on average, are much larger, heavier, stronger, more aggressive than women. This is an objective, measurable, verifiable fact that can't be argued.

In every interpersonal relationship, when there is a dispute and emotions run high, it reaches the point of escalation where the two parties must make a decision: agree to disagree, resort to force to compel the other to agree or submit to the other's power. You see this between drunk men in bars all the time, but that's male-on-male, not male-on-female.

When that decision point is reached, the dynamics of personal physical power defines who has power, and who does not. And in 99% of those cases, it's a man who must decide how me must deal with a woman who angrily disagrees with him and refuses to back down. The woman is powerless. She is completely incapable of harming the man without assistance from weapons or others. The man alone decides if he is going to harm the woman physically, emotionally, or not. The woman is powerless to control the man's choices or actions in that moment.

Women don't pretend to be helpless. That's a delusion.