I think you're exactly right. I researched and wrote a story a while back that tends to confirm what you've said - and not only do some men feel entitled to do this (after all, not so long ago, women were essentially property) but the social and judicial system doesn't throw the book at them the way it does women who kill their husbands (usually in self-defense).
“Men, on average, are sentenced to two to six years in prison for murdering a female partner, according to the ACLU. But when women kill their male partners (which is often in self-defense), they get an average of 15 years. Fifteen years. Fifteen years for fighting back. Fifteen years for protecting themselves. Fifteen years for surviving.
And that’s just an average. Kim Dadou Brown received a 17-year prison sentence for shooting and killing her boyfriend after he climbed on top of her and said he was going to kill her in 1991. And Brown isn’t alone. As many as 90% of women who are in prison for killing a man had been previously abused by that man.”
“This may mean that women killed by male partners are still seen as property and, as such, these femicides are not treated as seriously as other femicides,” the study states.
Sentenced for Defending Themselves
