My state moved to amend it's rape laws in the late nineties. One of the changes was to enable, for the first time, female perpetrators to be charged and convicted. During a Christmas breakup for the local branch of one of our major political parties I overheard a conversation among four women about such matters and made the mistake of mentioning my own childhood experience at the hands of an aunt. One of the four responded by immediately yelling "Women don't do that" and throwing her hand at my face. I wore bruising on my right cheek for weeks whilst passing it off as a basketball injury. The was no peaceful reconciliation. I left and never returned.