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Or why are there so many of them recently, anyway. So Anita Sarkeesian says "We seriously need to address connections between violence, sexism and toxic ideas of manhood before more boys and men commit more mass shootings." Well, I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing with that, I can't quite wrap my head around it, in fact, so I'm posing the question. What's up with all the mass shootings and why [i]is[/i] it always a dude? Men are just more prone to violence it seems, I guess due to testosterone. There are probably about as many mentally unstable (talking the suicidal/homicidal status here) females as there are males, they're just less likely to say -blam!- it, I'm gonna get a gun and go to work. That one seems easy to me. The reason there have been so many shootings lately could be a direct consequence of the flaws in society, not that sexism isn't one of them, but is it the biggest one? Is it more directly responsible for people snapping and going pscyho than, say, prescribing mental patients narcotics and drugs that alter your brain chemistry instead of therapy designed to help them better the circumstances in their life that are holding them back? [b]I[/b] say not, what say you?
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Women "go postal" just in different ways.
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lol, hit me with that shit, what do they do?
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Edited by lmdinosaur: 10/30/2014 6:51:54 AMWhen a male commits a homicide, they are more likely to use a gun. When a female does so, they are more likely to use poison or arson. Female's tend to have a more "hands off" approach...if that makes sense? Example, while yes..more men commit homicides in general ( in a 2008 gov report, men where like.. 8x more likely to be the offender), women were the offender in nearly half of all poisons and 1/3rd of all arsons...or something like that. That is a huge disproportionate swing. Like 95% of gun related homicides were male-based. EDIT: Something else to consider. "Argument" was listed as the top catalyst for "reasons why the homicide was committed"...where things like "drugs" topped the list for men. Think about this the next time your significant other cooks dinner after yall had a disagreement.
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