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Mar. 15th, 2004 07:59 pm (UTC)
old comment but i still think about this stuff
i am opposite, i guess! i am mystified by the zodiac too. of course now, i have tons of gary ridgeway stuff in local media - i even considered buying that whole boxed set of something like 18 dvds for about $2100 of all his confessions. [patricia cornwell is so far the only buyer. lol] i watched everything they showed on tv with his victims confronting him, every guilty charge... it was intense.

just to play with the idea of "only men can be horrendous" - i've read lots of crap saying that school shootings are never perpetrated by females. is that too far a leap from murderers to make any interesting associations?
Mar. 18th, 2004 08:53 am (UTC)
Re: old comment but i still think about this stuff
herm... depends on the kind of school shooting.
At my high school there was a chicky who brought a gun to a game (happened a lot actually, even after the metal detectors, they'd just come over the fence that backedup to the woods) and shot at some girl who she thought was getting it on with her boy/man.

She didn't hit anyone and the crowd jumped her pretty quick, but well, it was a school game, she brought a gun....

I think it depends on the circumstances. In the case of school shootings, you have to take into account the developmental differences in females and males and their age. A full grown woman and a full grown man aren't really that far about developmentally. But a 16 year old boy and a 16 year old girl are *entirely* different creatures.

I've heard people tell me , in all seriousness, that if there were no men there would be no war, no hate, etc. These people were witches of the Dianic persuasion... but still. It's a concept that's out there.
I think underestimating The ability of women to commit terrible crimes against others is a dangerous and probably far too idealistic a mind set.
I know that we're a hell of a lot less likely to be violent, but to reduce that to "just won't" is taking it too far.


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