Comments on: Daddy knows best!

By: Vladimir2

Vladimir2 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:48:02 +0000

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:15:45 +0000

By: Update: Morgan Caught « Like a Whisper

Update: Morgan Caught « Like a Whisper — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:02:47 +0000

[...] stalking) cases in the U.S. The cases that receive national level attention are rising but the way they are discussed and/or dealt with fails to deal with the oppression of women in general or, often, in the specific [...]

By: Ann Bartow

Ann Bartow — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:29:09 +0000

And on and on…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090425/ap_on_re_us/us_georgia_professor_shooting

By: Bavardess

Bavardess — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:31:21 +0000

I was also going to say – I would be interested to see more research examining the connection between access to guns and men murdering their families. I live in a country with strict gun control (hand guns are illegal except for target pistols on shooting ranges, carrying a shotgun/rifle in a public place is illegal, most automatic/semi-automatic weapons are illegal). However, we still have an extremely high rate of men injuring and killing their wives/partners and children. Rifles/shotguns get used (usually on farms or in rural areas) but stabbing and bludgeoning are also sickeningly common. Although I’m an advocate of strict gun control, I don’t know how much restricting access to guns would achieve.

By: Bavardess

Bavardess — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:18:02 +0000

I’ve also noticed that the cases of women killing family members generate shock-horror headlines and anguished analysis for days, whereas a man killing his family might rate a paragraph on page 3.

To my mind, the press coverage often reflects an insidious essentialism that still constructs women as ‘natural’ wives/mothers. So women killing people is shockingly ‘unnatural’ whereas men killing people is just an extreme expression of normal masculinity. In some recent local cases, I have also noticed the very disturbing sub-text that women are somehow the cause of the problem (emphasis on the fact that they’ve had affairs/left their husbands/been arguing etc. etc.) is still there, even if it may be a bit less overtly expressed than 20, 50 or 100 years ago.

By: Cold North Wind

Cold North Wind — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:26:21 +0000

En passant- I want to say- I really like this site- thanks to a U.S. friend who told me about it ! Salut !

By: Cold North Wind

Cold North Wind — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:16:02 +0000

Interesting. In all the comments above, it is the word ENTITLEMENT that stands out the most. Mama- I have my grave suspicions about the Y chromosone, also- but more, I think- our “cultures” suffer from cognitive dissonance- .Yes- entitled- to control,manipulate,beat and when those abuses don’t work- kill everything standing. Including self. Scorched earth war tactic.At what point can one label a segment of society- criminally insane ????

By: Mama Liberty

Mama Liberty — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:33:44 +0000

I blame the Y chromosome

By: Another Damned Medievalist

Another Damned Medievalist — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:04:42 +0000

I blame Euripides.