"In a lot of ways, men are frequently invisible victims of relationship abuse. When we think of abusive relationships, we often default to the idea of a woman as the victim with a man as the perpetrator. Rarely do we imagine men as the victims. To do so is almost comical –literally. The image of the angry housewife – usually fat and unattractive – waiting for at home for her milquetoast husband with curlers in her hair and a rolling pin, ready to dispense retributory violence for some slight, has been around for generations."

Men, after all, are taught that they’re not allowed to be victims… especially by someone perceived as being “weaker” than they are.
To be a “man” is to be strong; allowing a woman to hurt you means that you clearly aren’t a man.