Putting up to have a roof

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I'm in a bit of a tough spot here. I live with my boyfriend, his brother, his dad, and the dad's girlfriend/fiance. "Lady of the house" has his dad wrapped around her little finger. Now this is no small or timid man... in the past he's worked in a lion park, as a taxi driver, and a whole ton of other jobs. He's living with heart conditions & he's died several times in the past. He's been through divorce, & is friendly with his ex-wife. He's short & burly with a temper... overall, he's a tough individual, but a likeable guy. Yet whenever someone says something she doesn't like, she turns on the emotional manipulation & he jumps to defend her. That would be fine if people were actually attacking her... but she's one of those people that always have to be right. She's managed to have him threaten to throw the boys out because they were "play-fighting" in the house and broke our bed. Not because they broke our bed, but because "they could have broken some of her stuff". Now, however, she's really overstepped the mark. She's decided to ask my boyfriend's mother to see if she can book an appointment for him to see a psychologist/psychiatrist because he "has anger management issues". My boyfriend might have a bit of a temper, but no worse than the next guy. He certainly does not warrant psych intervention! (And the mother agrees, she rang up to tell him what Lady-of-the-House had done) Not to mention that he's 21, old enough to make these sorts of decisions for himself... and if it was someone else's decision to make, it would be his parents' decision, or mine, at a stretch of the imagination. We can't confront her about it, because she'll cause a fuss which will inevitably end with us getting kicked out. I could deal with that if we could afford to live somewhere else, but we can't. It just gets me so darned ticked off that someone intelligent like his dad can get so... mindless-puppy-with-trainer over someone like her. It's not an adult relationship. You might say it's not my place to judge, and it's probably not, but for crying out loud... blindlessly taking sides with someone before hearing the other side... blindlessly threatening people because they've said something someone disagrees with? Garggh I'm going to have to end this rant here cause it's too long already (sorry guys). Dammit I am angry though... and I hate feeling helpless like this.