[jpatokal]

The stereotypical wife beater is an unemployed alcoholic white man who wears a ketchup-stained wifebeater (hence the nickname) and lives a trailer park. They're not loaded senior execs/CEOs running large companies in Palo Alto, which is one of the richest cities in the entire US.

And of course, if someone conforming to the stereotype were to find themselves in court facing identical charges, they would not be walking away with a slap on the wrist...