gender violence

TRX
January 23, 2013
62:
I found the Courant article to be both shallow and biased.

Using their numbers as an example:

"47 percent of men own a firearm while only 13 percent of females do"

It's statistically likely many of their sample set are married, and "ownership" can be a bit vague in the marriage contract. Even when one partner "owns" all the guns, boats, cutlery, or hand-painted commemorative plates, the other partner normally has free access to them.

Elsewhere, the author conflates "violence" and "violence against women." She also questions why female-originated violence is considered notable, then only mentioned "men's violence against women" as something that she feels should be discussed with children.

"Linda Ann Scacco of West Hartford is licensed clinical psychologist and an adjunct faculty member"

Hopefully not an example of the kind of person who would examine people for the "Federal Mental Health Card" so many people seem to be advocating lately...

TRX
January 24, 2013
155:
@8:
Now the expectations became that I would become bossy and tell other people what to do rather than just doing it myself.
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They didn't send you to multiple leadership schools? Or did you go to one with a text something like "Lincoln on Leadership", like the USAF was enamored of for a while.

"Bossy" may work in some management situations, but it's seldom effective in leadership situations.

TRX
January 24, 2013
156:
@35:
Which reminds me, how does a dominant and control minded woman deal with being female in the first place? (that is, assuming such women exist, tell me if I'm wrong there)
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They're not typically going to club you over the head and drag them off to their cave.

Sex, gender, or orientation are irrelevant with regard to dominance.

TRX
January 24, 2013
157:
@42: - Second by their empathy, resilience and capacity for sacrifice, from Casablanca to Gran Torino.
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I agree, but considering the huge number of people who absolutely missed the point of "Gran Torino", that particular movie may not be a good example.

That, or there are two very different movies out there with the same title...

TRX
January 24, 2013
159:
@107:
I think a lot of the roots of current US culture are so obvious they seem simplistic and almost embarrassingly simple-minded when pointed out. Such as:
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Such as the USA is *not* a monoculture.

Such as the overwhelming majority of violent crime comes from two of the three major subcultures.

Such as social and ethical values vary widely between the three major subcultures.

Such as the law and standards for "normal" are set by only one subculture.

Such as though these subcultures are typically stereotyped by race, they're more typically geographic than racial.

Such as what you see in the mass media is the product of only one of the subcultures.

Such as members of each subculture typically like their own culture just fine, thankyouverymuch, and aren't the least interested in being forcibly converted to a different one, no matter how hard it's rammed down their throats.

"The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" is a monoculture, innit? Everyone just the same, as presented by BBC America? God Save The Queen, qiddich ball, blood pudding?

TRX
January 25, 2013
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@229:
A solution to the problem of male violence might only need a rather small gene tweak to limit the degrees of anger that can be felt.
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You don't need anger to do violent things. You don't even need to be annoyed. Sometimes you do them because you think they need to be done.

A distant relative of mine was part of the Seventh Army when they liberated Dachau.

(from Wikipedia) "Before the soldiers entered the camp, they found outside 40 roofless boxcars (or freight-cars) full of emaciated dead bodies in advanced stages of decomposition. More bodies were found about the camp. Some had been dead for hours and days before the camp's capture and lay where they had died. Soldiers reported seeing a row of cement structures that contained rooms full of hundreds of naked and barely clothed dead bodies piled floor to ceiling, a coal-fired crematorium and a gas chamber."

Even the accounts given at the court martial were confused, but everyone agreed that Lt. Jack Bushyhead was the one doing most of the work, using a machine gun. Somewhere between 125 and 350 (it was *that* confused) Nazi camp guards were added to the piles of rotting bodies, and cousin Jack took responsibility for all of them, whether he personally shot them or not.

Jack's court-martial didn't hurt his career much. Other than breaking regulations, nobody figured he'd done anything wrong. Nowadays he's usually considered to be a mass murderer.

Personally, I side with Jack...