Daily Mail caption: Sheila Lockridge, 66, who was charged with murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court today.

It has long been known that of the three gendered possibilities in 1:1 intimate relationships (M/F, M/M, F/F), the highest levels of interpersonal violence are found in lesbian couples. Why, those damned patriarchs and their gendered violence! Our thanks to Mike P for this.

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