Re: An excellent take on this subject

"MSNothing" <msnothing@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Corbella_Licia/2007/05/30/4219496.html

Very interesting indeed, good find.

(excerpt)

"On blogs and news websites, while the
vast majority of comments express disgust,
the predictable mushy pap we so often
hear about women who commit crimes
emerged.
On blogs and news websites, while
the vast majority of comments
express disgust, the predictable
mushy pap we so often hear about
women who commit crimes emerged.

One states: "There are so many
plausible circumstances that could
have lead this woman to do this ...
walk a mile in her shoes.... We
can't judge until we know all the
details."

Criminologist Dr. Mahfooz Kanwar,
a sociology professor at Mount Royal
College in Calgary, says the very
same people who argue that women
should be treated equally with men
with regard to opportunities, demand
softer treatment with regard to
consequences for criminal acts --
making excuses for women based on
them being "emotionally fragile".

"If a man had done what she has
allegedly done," says Kanwar, "he'd
be charged with attempted murder.

"It's not for the Crown prosecutor
to determine a person's mental
fitness. Charges should be laid first
then the courts can order psychiatric
assessments afterward."

Kanwar says because men are much more
likely to commit violent crimes and
women have natural nurturing
tendencies, society tries to explain
aberrant behaviour by attributing
victimhood to women who commit crimes.

Consider the 12-year sentence handed
down to school-girl abductor, torturer
and murderer Karla Homolka?

Gender equality in Canada? Not yet."

More info here:

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