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Identifying that men are more violent than women is sexist

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FFSFFSFFS · 07/08/2020 10:44

I thiiiiink that is the point of this. I mean. WTAF.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/39J8QqqNbpGxcjGLC9QprNZ/women-who-kill

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EyesOpening · 07/08/2020 12:04

@Collidascope

"On this week’s episode ofBad People, myself and my podcast co-host Sofie Hagen..."

I know this isn't the point, but this drives me mad. Why do people insist on saying myself when they mean I or me?

Drives me mad too! I think people think using "I" or "myself" is the "posh" way of saying "me" (although "myself" can be used for emphasis as well as when the object of the sentence is the same as the subject)
EyesOpening · 07/08/2020 11:59

I didn't really see anything in the article to make me think the assumptions at the start were wrong, if that's what she was trying to do. Indeed after the initial bit she says
"So far, everything fits with the assumption that women who kill are probably desperate, that some are women facing abuse who are finally fighting back. This is even more the case when we consider that research has found that compared to men, women more frequently kill intimate partners in situations where the homicide victim initiated the physical aggression."
Although she then talks about female serial killers and says "In a US study of 64 female serial killers" but this doesn't tell us what percentage this represents of female killers nor against male ones, other than "Serial killers are themselves quite rare" and then says" but these examples remind us of the need to challenge our assumptions about why, when, and whom women kill." - not really if that's .0000000001%

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 07/08/2020 11:08

Sofie Hagan announced that she's NB in a long and rambling post last year.

Nothing she has ever been involved with makes that much sense to me. So, this is no surprise.

www.sofiehagen.com/newsletters/2020/2/26/also-im-not-a-woman-2019

Collidascope · 07/08/2020 11:02

"On this week’s episode ofBad People, myself and my podcast co-host Sofie Hagen..."

I know this isn't the point, but this drives me mad. Why do people insist on saying myself when they mean I or me?

FFSFFSFFS · 07/08/2020 10:54

It's just soooooo odd isn't it - I think its a real insight into how women and feminism are under so much attack and logic is desperately being twisted to make it seem that anti-women positions are feminist and pro-women.

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 07/08/2020 10:50

That is a really bizarre article. I was going to C&P some examples, but the whole thing is just bizarre.