In their sleep? And escape justice by claiming "she was very abusive to me always"? Why not? If you want this battered woman's defence and you profess sexual equality,why not? Do you know of any battered woman defence case where a woman had actually been battered? I'm a mom. When people kill their children and get a slap on the hand because they're female it makes me angry - very - and the same applies when they kill their spouse. i didn't kill mine; I divorced him. How can do 1) denounce domestic violence,and then 2) endorse if the malefactor is a woman. I'm a woman And I'm insulted by the idea that we are sugar & spice and would never do anything evil. I see a lot of women committing horrifying domstic violence and then portraying themselves as the victim.