I agree with that. Violence needs to remain clearly defined - because we suffer so, so much more of it, and we are physically less able to defend ourselves, as well as inflict equivalent harm on the rare occasions women are violent.
We've seen where the idea that words can equal violence has led, and it's certainly not anywhere good for the half of the human race who are rarely violent, but all too often in receipt of it.
None of that is to downplay the horrors of coercive control and emotional abuse. They're linked, absolutely, but we are in the state we are because of language being twisted out of shape. Words have meanings, and we need to retain them if we want to be able to assert a shared reality, based on facts.
Having said that - this doesn't surprise me. Young people are being told that women are privileged compared to strapping young males asserting a gender identity contrary to their sex. Porn doesn't help, either. We are seeing more violence towards women, more denigration of women, and less understanding of that, and grossly reduced chances of consequence - yet human behaviour hasn't changed one jot. The world we currently inhabit is more nakedly misogynist than any I can remember - it's shocking to think how far we've fallen, and how fast.