women more violent than men?

The study relies on self reporting your own poor behavior. A man hitting a woman is more frowned upon than vice versa. Men would be less likely to report abusing a woman or child. Piss poor study.

 

Men are less likely to report being the victim of violence also, so I guess any statistic saying women are more likely to be the victim of violence would be a piss poor study also.

 

If you can equate serial killer Ted Bundy and a serial slapper woman you may have an argument. I can't equate the two.

 

Just from your own personal experience how many men do you think get raped every year? Do you think it is as many as women?

 

That is a question, that would have an answer, that would be a moot point. Again, you keep going back to one type of act or extreme acts of violence. The idea is that women are just as or more likely to turn to violence, no matter how severe.

 

I guess if you consider spanking violence, since women are the primary caregivers, you could be right. You have done the same thing to the word violence that civil rights "leaders" have done to the word discrimination.

Let me repeat:

If you can equate serial killer Ted Bundy and a serial slapper woman you may have an argument. I can't equate the two.

My wife slaps me--one point on the violence scale. An Islamic extremist flies a 757 into the WTC ----100,000 points on the violence scale.

If ya got a choice between being murdered or slapped three times a day for the rest of your life what would you choose?

 

What do you call hitting someone with the purpose and intent of causing pain?

Non-violence?


Clearly violence comes in many forms and not limited to just murder. Turning to violence is more of a mindset than anything else. A person feeling a violent reaction is okay is what I was trying to discuss. A man causing more noticable damage is the "result" of his violence and has nothing to do with proving trends of who is the most violent.

 

I disagree completely. Murdering someone is more violent than slapping someone. Men commit 8 times more murders not because their physical strength results in death instead of a bruise. Usually a firearm or other weapon is used. It is because 90% of the time the intent to kill is there. Killing someone is more violent than slapping someone.

 

I see your point but the data does not agree with you. Even the violent crime numbers show murder as a very tiny portion of the overall violence committed in America. Violence is not the act, it is the mindset.

If I try to kill you but fail, does that mean my act was not violent?

Of course not, and that is why we need to ignore the result of violence and focus down on the mental state that leads to violence.


While your looking at murder though and trying to say murder is more significant than other violence consider this:

When a man kills, it is usually another man and not someone he is related to.


When a woman kills it is usually someone she is supposed to love and take care of like her children or her mate, if we want to attach greater strength, killing your loved ones would put that at the top of my list.

 

Let me remind you the title of this post is "women more violent than men?" It is not "women more likely to engage in a violent action than men?" In my mindset murdering someone is many times more violent than slapping someone. One murder is equivalent to a million slaps.

Do you disagree?

From the department of justice

 

If your going to narrow down to such a tiny segment of violence I guess so but that leaves out most of the violent acts in America, reported and not reported.

Murder - Crime in the United States 2005

This is like discussing abortion. All anyone wants to do is talk about rape and medical need abortion that account for 1% of the overall abortions and here all you want to talk about is 1.2% of all violence and ignore the rest.


I'm sorry but I am talking about all violence and who is the most likely to turn to violence. Violence is more than a result.

 

Nobody is talking about if one type of violent act is worse then another, and since this thread was started by TJ, and his interpretation of the meaning of the thread is that we are talking about acts of violence, and not just extreme acts like rape and murder, I will have to say that the intent was "women more likely to engage in violent action then men".

 

Do wedgies count as a violent act?

 

I'm not sure about wedgies, but purple nurples definitely do, and a noogie, if it is intended to be mean spirited and not as a joke, counts too.

 

Ain't nothin' worse than a woman who knows she ain't gonna get her jaw-jacked.

 

That is worrying. It is not normal behaviour. In the USA though, cant you go and see mug shots and get other data about all sex predators in your area ? You might just find his photo. If you do report him straight away. He must be in violation of parole or something, by hanging around where kids are.

In the UK we do not have Megans Law. Paedophiles can live amongst us with anonymity.

Sometimes, they are let out early on condition that they live in so called - half way houses. It was on just such an occasion a few years ago that a baby was kidnapped and raped in the UK.

Of course the public knew nothing of this half way house until it was too late.

I think the politicians who shelter these beasts are just as guilty as the beasts themselves.

 

I go a step further, I say that their enabling most of the attacks made on children.

By allowing these pieces of garbage to escape the punnishments they deserve, it lifts up other pedaphiles to also act on their impulses. I don't think you can stop all pedaphiles, but I know we can send a message to all of them that society does not allow this kind of action.

If it was up to me any person molesting a small child would die, but that is just me.

 

I read somewhere that men are more likely to see it through, ie do it. Wheras women are more likely to not do so, for them oftentimes its a cry for help. They make sure they are discovered.

Also, where men do it, it tends to be messy/nasty. Gun/hanging/building jumping. Female suicides are more likely to be less messy/nasty, poison, gas etc