How much less crime there would be a world of all women

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PinkOwlReading · 25/07/2022 00:00

I've just watched the highly recommended and heartbreaking Netflix documentary "The Girl in the Picture" spoiler alert the perpetrator is now on death row. So it got me Googling how many people are on death row in the US. Clearly not all states have the death penalty and the burden of proof for someone to receive that harshest sentence is very high plus appeals all the time etc... so it's a pretty strong indication that these people truly are the worst of humanity. As of 1 Jan 2022 (according to Wikipedia) there are circa 2,500 people on death row in the USA. Guess how may of those are women?

Not 500, 50! Less than 1% when obviously women make up 50% of the population. And of those women the majority were convicted of killing their own babies and children or husbands (obviously inexcusable) but in contrast to the men who's lists of victims are often multiple murders, bombings, mass shootings affecting unconnected innocent strangers. I was really shocked by the disparity. Two things strike me about this:-

Men are much more randomly violent and evil than women and what a different world we would like in if we were all women or if we could teach (or the Patriarchy would allow) our boys to be more like women; and

This is why we must preserve the integrity of crime data with true sex data and not blur the lines with "identifying gender" etc...

Anyone else agree this is the starkest comparison of all?

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LemonSwan · 25/07/2022 00:59

I am no better at empathy, collaboration or negotiation than my partner - I am just better at pretending that I am. Pretending probably isn’t the right word but I hope you know what I mean. Manipulating even but that’s not right really either.

Perhaps more of an awareness of social situations - but I don’t think it’s because I am more adept at this naturally; perhaps it is female conditioning or more caution to not evoking untoward reaction, or just that I have put more effort into it because as a female we have to work that bit harder sometimes.

I do believe men are more violent and dangerous naturally. I don’t think that’s learned - if anything I think those men who are not violent or dangerous is a learned behaviour. If you think how we have evolved it makes sense. It’s division of labour. They hunt, they build and they fight. We gathered, cooked, cleaned and kept the children and the home.

I often joke the quickest way to weaken a man would be to not provide him with breakfast or lunch. Us women are slow and steady and are built to survive longer on less - hell we can even grow a whole human barely keeping water or food down for 9 months. I know my DP would be quivering in a low blood sugar induced ball by dinner time. That might not seem relevant but I think it is. They are designed to be do high power activities for short periods. This probably explains why they can be quite reactive - with adrenaline/ testosterone etc. We are more considered for want of a better word.

We are just different and I am not saying it’s right - these people on death row are clearly uncivilised. But it’s just that in my eyes - most men are civilised and function in modern society, some just can’t get their brain to override primate wiring and so we have to lock them in a box.

YY absolutely should not mess with the data.

HeddaGarbled · 25/07/2022 00:33

Also we’re socialised to be subservient. If there were no men about, social expectations would be different and we’d be different. There’s anger in us, no doubt.

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PinkOwlReading · 25/07/2022 00:26

Great response, thank you. You're right about the possible effect of male authority or fear of violence just being there may be a deterrent to many women and we can never know what a world without that would be like. I hadn't thought of that. I suspect though that women would be better at empathy, collaboration, negotiation and just generally trying all other means to resolve any issues before resorting to violent crime that it just would be bloody marvellous
In the absence of that Utopia though I do feel very strongly about preserving the integrity of sex based data in many areas and I'm glad you agree (from an experienced background) that it's important

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MrsTerryPratchett · 25/07/2022 00:05

I honestly think it's difficult to know what the world would be like. There would DEFINITELY be less crime. However, maybe not as much less as you'd think. Part of the reason many women don't act like arseholes is fear of the consequences (often male violence). Remove that fear, would there be a bit more female violence. I think there would, a bit.

But yes, as a data nerd and someone who understands statistics, changing what you collect is very foolish. You don't get comparable data. By all means collect MORE data. But don't change the meaning of the data set.

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