Phyllis
Chesler, Ph.D, is an Emerita Professor of Psychology
and Women’s Studies at City University of New
York. She is a best-selling author, a legendary feminist
leader. This article first appeared in her newsletter:
https://phyllis-chesler.com
SERIAL KILLING - A MOSTLY MALE PREROGATIVE
C’mon
now. One, two, or three women (including a transman,
aka a woman) do not in any way override the 98-99% of
mass shooters who are biologically male.
Further: Incidents of mothers killing (their own) children,
while reprehensible, are not the same as mass shootings
of strangers.
Again: Compared to male serial killers, who kill mainly
women, one by one, female serial killers are both rare
and very different from male serial killers. True, there
is more than one “first” female serial killer
(Aileen Wuornos). Hell yes. I wrote a book about this
titled: Requiem
for a Female Serial Killer.
Yes, there are wives who marry and then kill a series
of husbands for their insurance money (black widows).
These are intimate family murders and are not the same
as mass shootings of strangers or serial killings, which
are mainly male-on-female and sometimes male-on-male
killings. However, there are both female and male nurses
who have killed their elderly patients as well as infants
who are strangers to them.
Moving right along: Are you serious about female domestic
violence rivaling or even surpassing physical male domestic
violence? If so, you are sadly misinformed or are, perhaps,
bitter over a more personal matter. Women may psychologically
or verbally torment their spouses but that, too, is
not the same as breaking bones or killing.
Are women angels? Absolutely not. I am the author of
Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman, and I know this very
well. But women are far more aggressive towards other
women than to men. Yes, women may fail both their male
and female children–but again, that is not the
same as a mass shooting of strangers. That, too, is
intimate family violence.
Apples are not Oranges.
also by Phyllis Chesler
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Than the Earthquake
Trouble
Is My Name
Meditation by the Sea
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New York's Public Bathrooms
Perils of Non-Violent Islam
Orgasm
Meditation Movement
Gender
Gangsterism
O
Malala
High
Fashion & Boyish Bodies
Tar:
Film Review
Female
Refugees and Male Baggage
Self-Defense
Against Rape
I
Am Frightened for us Women
Remember
the Taliban
The
Writing Life
Transgender
Bending
Femicide:
A Form of Honour Killing
Secular
Islam on the Rise
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