Click here (aljazeera.com) to read a provocative opinion
piece about a highly-charged murder trial taking place in Arizona...
What
are your thoughts/reactions regarding how the male victim and the
female perpetrator are being portrayed?
6 comments:
Anonymous
said...
This will be made into a salacious Snapped episode.
What strikes me the most is the statistics. Men who kill women get an average of 2-6 years jail time while women routinely get 15?!? Why the double standard?
I wonder what the sentencing is for male killing male vs. woman killing woman...
Men are often viewed as animalistic, unable to control their natural impulses when pushed to the edge. (The "crime of passion" defense comes to mind.) Women are more often portrayed like black widow spiders, laying the traps for their unknowing prey. What is more heinous to a jury - a heat of the moment killing or a well orchestrated plot to murder?
I feel that if this case was going the other direction, the man still alive and the woman dead, if the man were to say that he did this as an act of self defense, no one would believe him. I am glad that I am not the jury though - that's for sure!
A convoluted saga, to be sure. Insightful comments, folks, about the various sex-gender discrepancies that appear to be surfacing in this highly-charged case. A modern-day Jael, perhaps? or Jezebel? Or neither!
Its a sad happening, the brutality of the slaying gives warning however there appears to be a double standard for rebellious women killing the perpetrators of their abuse or in this case possible abuse.
6 comments:
This will be made into a salacious Snapped episode.
What strikes me the most is the statistics. Men who kill women get an average of 2-6 years jail time while women routinely get 15?!? Why the double standard?
I wonder what the sentencing is for male killing male vs. woman killing woman...
-Stephanie
Men are often viewed as animalistic, unable to control their natural impulses when pushed to the edge. (The "crime of passion" defense comes to mind.) Women are more often portrayed like black widow spiders, laying the traps for their unknowing prey. What is more heinous to a jury - a heat of the moment killing or a well orchestrated plot to murder?
Oops forgot to sign off on my last comment.
-Julie
I feel that if this case was going the other direction, the man still alive and the woman dead, if the man were to say that he did this as an act of self defense, no one would believe him. I am glad that I am not the jury though - that's for sure!
Mylinda
A convoluted saga, to be sure. Insightful comments, folks, about the various sex-gender discrepancies that appear to be surfacing in this highly-charged case. A modern-day Jael, perhaps? or Jezebel? Or neither!
pdk
Its a sad happening, the brutality of the slaying gives warning however there appears to be a double standard for rebellious women killing the perpetrators of their abuse or in this case possible abuse.
Trying time we live in
KJJ
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