EDIT: Framing a woman entirely as a passive victim of her hormones or postpartum biology strips away the concept of adult female autonomy.
By reducing her actions to medical helplessness, the defense inadvertently relies on old, patriarchal tropes... making Lindsay Clancy defenders, ironically, the ultimate anti-feminists.
you kid but if you've seen enough videos of cops in high stress situations over the last few years it's clear who handles stress better (and also, who is more aggressive)
Have to disagree there. I think women are just as likely if not more likely to get angry and act on it, men just have much more capacity for violence as the more physically dominant sex.
This is pretty obvious I don’t even think it needs to be said, but clearly it does.
Women are just as crazy as men, men are just, on average, capable of doing a lot more damage which makes things uglier a lot quicker and more often, not by willingness to do so, but by ability to do so.
I think women are just as likely if not more likely to get angry and act on it, men just have much more capacity for violence as the more physically dominant sex.
I don't necessarily think this is the case. There are plenty of ways to murder someone or commit violence even if you're less physically strong.
For example, a woman with an assault rifle or glock has just as much capacity to murder as a man does. A gun is an equalising force, a small woman with a gun could easily kill Francis Ngannou.
Yet despite this, the vast majority of mass shootings and firearm murders are done by men, not women. Proving that even when men and women have similar capacities to violence, men are still more dangerous.
I was more so pushing back on men being more likely to feel anger, I think it's pretty even. And by acting on it I didn't mean strictly violence or extreme examples. In my experience, women are quick to start arguments, lash out or act out when they are angry and some are easily triggered. For example, with DV, it happens at the highest rate in lesbian relationships, and woman on man DV is underreported for sure. A lot of men also tend to hold it in (not the best since it can fester and boil over).
Men in general do commit more violence and are over represented in those extreme cases; we do have more natural aggression and are more prone to risk taking. I don't disagree that men are inherently more dangerous.
Exactly. It’s like comparing a chihuahua to a Rottweiler. Chihuahua are far more likely to bite, but rotties have a higher kill count cause they can easily kill, even by accident sometimes.
Chihuahua Also don’t get corrected most of the time by their owners so they get away with that behaviour. Hence why you see so many small dogs trying to attack dogs 10x their size since they know the big dog won’t retaliate usually since social standards will always blame the big dog if it hurts the smaller dog, regardless of who starts it.
Same as how women get away with being aggressive to men and even slapping them without retaliation. If the man responds back, he will be blamed cause he’s bigger.
Men have more ego and aggression due to testosterone. Women are more emotional du en to estrogen . Both are emotional but in different ways.
But men are given more responsibility to “be tough” “be a man” “quit acting like a girl” “suck it up” “you have to be a man” this are all things young teens have to hear growing up.
So due to social expectations, men are gonna be more ready to deal with stress since the mindset is ingrained at a young age.
Fathers are harder on their sons more than their daughters
I'm not disputing men shoot more, they do. This is obviously anecdotal but i handle tort/1983 cases against police departments, including where police pursue a suspect and ultimately hit my client. I've only had four of those cases and two of the drivers were women, both testified more or less to having tunnel vision and by the time i took the deposition, each of them (who were under 35) had left the force. Women are 10% of the police force where I live, so its curious they account for half of the wrongful pursuit cases i've handled, and the two most egregious. IMO a chase is amongst the most high stress situations, esp for new officers, so its a good proxy for determining how well one handles stress
Yes and I’ve seen that women are worse at it. Men handle stress better biologically but upbringing matters too. A woman who grew up in a rough household, trains mma, spars with men, has a bunch of brothers is gonna be way better at handling stress than a sheltered rich Dubai man.
But if both parties have the same environmental factors, then the men will handle it better generally
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u/Available_Dot_935 4h ago edited 3h ago
EDIT: Framing a woman entirely as a passive victim of her hormones or postpartum biology strips away the concept of adult female autonomy.
By reducing her actions to medical helplessness, the defense inadvertently relies on old, patriarchal tropes... making Lindsay Clancy defenders, ironically, the ultimate anti-feminists.