Which, of course, doesn't make the argument go away. :)
I also wonder, as an aside, if men really beat women because they rationally calculate that it'll make us mind. I think it's about control, sure, but more about trying to control their world in a way that they know how perhaps? In that sense, it's still about class power. When they have a bad day at work and take it out at home, it's because they can't take it out on the boss/co-workers that they perceive as making life miserable--and, of course, in that sense it's anger at a "system" that they don't have the vocabulary to describe particularly well.
kelley