maleficent

Option A
With some people, it's what they know... I'm sure in some part of their brain, they know it's wrong, and both men and women can be abusive, but they've not seen other ways to express anger.

Option B -
People abuse other people, because they can... The abuser probably has never had anyone stand up to them, so as long as they don't have anyone call them on their behavior, they will continue to do it.

I worked with an editor at a major news magazine years back who was a total hothead... He broke his office door, more than once, he put a hole in his office wall by throwing a stapler at a person -he missed but the wall didn't do so well... His tantrums were legendary... and they were tantrums... I could easily see him as a small child throwing a tantrum to get what he wanted and Id bet my last dollar that it worked...

it's behavior he learned at an early age, and he never saw reason to change... I never once saw anyone stand up to him... and last I checked his name was still on the masthead... so I'd imagine he's still wandering the halls causing people to cower.

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