Why does society have violence against women?

Answer 1

There are many reasons for violence against women; the main ones are:

• Any bully (regardless of gender) derives a feeling of power by dominating someone with less power (self esteem); if the bullying achieves success in small amounts, the bullying escalates (both emotional and physical), and if still unchecked will lead to violence.
• There are still men, regardless of the society around them, still view women as property, not as a person or human being like themselves. Men who view women as subservient to themselves whose place is to 'feed' the needs of the man. This is not a dominant trait of societies whose social order has specifically assigned roles for men and women, those societies value and respect women for their contributions to that society. Men who feel superior to women usually have acquired this perspective in their upbringing or as a result of a personality disorder (often as described in the first example).
• Societies that have lost the order of laws or are controlled by leaders who fall into the first two categories will often fall into a society that abuses women as a matter of routine and a way of life, but that type of society doesn't usually limit such abuse to only women, but whoever the abuser feels they can freely abuse.
• Sometimes men, at some point in their lives, can seem to change from a normal personality to one of the above descriptions. There are many reasons for this including an onset of depression, a drastic change in their personal circumstance, or have always had these tendencies but have been motivated to keep them hidden and that motivation in no longer as strong or has disappeared and they can't maintain the facade that covers their true nature. This is also not necessarily limited to male behavior.

These examples are simple overview explanations, violent behavior is not simple for individuals or societies. If it were simple, more would have been done to reduce or eliminate it. Right now, all we have available to us are laws that define what is not acceptable and must be treated as a crime. The bottom line is that the human race has flaws that can't be 'fixed' and laws and incarceration can only do as much as knowledge and wisdom can be applied; a society is willing to allow and is willing to pay for.