*beep* the men in Black Sails

Act like a bitch get slapped like a bitch.

I'm just hoping Blackbeard beats up Eleanor. That would be awesome.

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I think our crimes tend to reflect our biology.

Nonsense. The most prolific serial killer of all time was a woman, Elizabeth of Bathory. The most successful pirate of all time, with the largest fleet and the most men, was a woman, Ching Shih. Women have been thieves, rapists, robbers, killers. Women have also led armies and fought in front line combat. Aside from being smaller and physically weaker than men, women are just as capable of horrific crimes as men.

I don't think there's an argument to be made that men aren't inherently more prone to violence. It's probably why the majority of wars and conflict have been fought by men, etc.

The majority of wars and conflicts have been fought by men because of political and monetary conflicts, not because men are more inherently prone to violence. I will remind you that Queen Elizabeth was a very violent woman, who sent out privateers all over the world to loot and kill and claim territory for the English throne, and that Joan of Arc raised an army to fight the English.

As to our modern day, research going back forty years shows that women are often the primary aggressors in domestic abuse, ever since the 1975 National Family Violence Survey by sociologists Murray Straus and Richard Gelles of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire found that women were just as likely as men to report hitting a spouse and men were just as likely as women to report getting hit. The researchers initially assumed that, at least in cases of mutual violence, the women were defending themselves or retaliating. But when subsequent surveys asked who struck first, it turned out that women were as likely as men to initiate violence—a finding confirmed by more than 200 studies of intimate violence. In a 2010 review essay in the journal Partner Abuse, Straus concludes that women’s motives for domestic violence are often similar to men’s, ranging from anger to coercive control. Two major studies—the 2000 National Violence Against Women Survey by the National Institute of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey published last February—have also found that some 40% of those reporting serious partner violence in the past year are men.

Violence by women causes less harm due to obvious differences in size and strength, but it is by no means harmless. Women may use weapons, from knives to household objects—including highly dangerous ones such as boiling water—to neutralize their disadvantage, and men may be held back by cultural prohibitions on using force toward a woman even in self-defense. In his 2010 review, Straus concludes that in various studies, men account for 12% to 40% of those injured in heterosexual couple violence. Men also make up about 30% of intimate homicide victims—not counting cases in which women kill in self-defense. And women are at least as likely as men to kill their children—more so if one counts killings of newborns—and account for more than half of child maltreatment perpetrators.

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