Comments on: Daddy knows best!

By: Zenith Campus Lockdown: Watching, Waiting and Meditating on Violence Against Women - Tenured Radical - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:39:09 +0000

[...] or intelligent to say on the topic, but if this short rant feeds your feminist outrage too, go to this post by Historiann about the Loyola University tragedy, where Daddy decided that his life wasn’t worth living [...]

By: Vladimir2

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

аквариум

By: Vladimir

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

kluchi

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