Yes. I know that I've catered alot to stereotypes in the last few messages, but I've really tried asking girlfriends and my sister as to why they reacted like they did (after they calm down) and I just can't seem to get an answer slightly resembling any thought process I can relate to.
Example:
3 years ago I got into a fight at a bar with some dude who spilled a beer on my girlfriend after she had turned his offer down a couple of times. He was acting like a pig all evening, but I thought she could handle it. When he got physical I stepped in. After the brawling was over my girlfriend was actually mad at me . Even though I stepped in because I felt like that situation was escalating to a physical level, one which she had no chance of handling on her own, I got the flack for stepping in. Then followed accusations of being possessive, thinking that she's weak etc.
When it later turned out that the guy had a slight history of slapping up women, she still held her ground that I should have stayed out of it. We broke up shortly after because she kept acting like a bitch.
To this day, I still don't know what went wrong. And yet most girls I've talked to tend to side with her.