“One of the most pervasive and undisputed gender stereotypes is that men are more aggressive than women. However, this stereotype has, until recently, led researchers to conclude that women are nonaggressive and, therefore, to ignore the topic of female aggression as a distinct phenomenon. The basis of the myth, factors supporting its maintenance, and theories of female aggression are examined. A feminist reinterpretation of aggression that views women’s and men’s aggressive behavior within social structural arrangements that create and sustain differential power relations is presented.”
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November 9, 2013 at 2:18 pm
syrbal-labrys
I find all their screaming about female aggression a sort of scapegoating and avoidance technique. They SO fear a possibly deserved response in like kind that they greatly inflate the risk. I, myself? I often feel an aggressive impulse, and I have had to face physical confrontations began by others against me in my life; being small, I always knew I had to make my first one or two strikes count because I might not get more. So, I fight effectively when pushed to it….men would doubtless call it “dirty”. I do not start fights, but I DO finish them. And if men are so afraid of this that they LIE about it….well, as we said in the Army, “sounds like a personal problem to me”. The gutless fucks.
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November 9, 2013 at 2:42 pm
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@Syrbal
It happens all to frequently. It happened to me just recently in a thread on this very blog in which I try, unsuccessfully to date, convince a dude that Patriarchy exists. The “dear god, what about the menz” routine came fast and furious all with the goal of taking away from the 80 frakking tonne elephant in the room – Patriarchy hurts women and men, the gender binary that supports it is corrosive to both classes and individuals in every level of society. Women and children (worse if you’re non-white) are the primary victims and subjects of violence and oppression.
9 out of 10 rape cases are women – the perpetrator almost always male. Do we talk about ending the conditions that make this happen? No fucking way, we get bullshit about men not being able to prosecute women for forcing them to have sex with them, we get male domestic statistics…all these brilliant facades to wiggle away from the notion that patriarchy exists and women (and men) are oppressed by it.
Gah!
err..so ya, I’m with you on this one. :)
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November 9, 2013 at 5:19 pm
syrbal-labrys
Patriarchy does hurt men, too. But overall, women suffer the most from it. And don’t get me started on the women who seem to have Stockholm Syndrome on the subject.
Men who don’t immediately piss me off usually get rapidly disarmed because they don’t know what to say to my “Yes, men suffer, too….and as soon as YOU help ME get the men off OUR backs, I will help you get whatever female monkey you perceive off YOUR back.” As I tell them, if 9 women are in a hell-in-life situation and 2 men are suffering similar misery, but without the other effects of sexism (jobs, forced birth, etc) simple rules of triage says the majority is dealt with FIRST.
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