Comments on: Women Who Ask For It http://www.akesana.com/2010/02/02/women-who-ask-for-it/ Social Conversation For Thinkers, Listeners, Doers and Creators Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:30:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kim Krause Berg http://www.akesana.com/2010/02/02/women-who-ask-for-it/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Kim Krause Berg Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:27:58 +0000 http://www.akesana.com/?p=461#comment-140 And then there are women who abuse men or use them for money and full support rather than getting a job. I get angry as hell until I realize that these men have allowed those women to make their decisions for them and in exchange for sex will provide for them. So, in the end, the man has the power because the woman has given it to him, thinking she's gotten something. There's no equality there for either gender. Co-dependency yes. The woman who ran over her husband handed over her power to him and is rewarded for that by mental doctors? I don't get it. The women and girls being raped in Haiti...who is protecting them? Men or women? Does it matter? Should it matter? Apparently, yes. And then there are women who abuse men or use them for money and full support rather than getting a job. I get angry as hell until I realize that these men have allowed those women to make their decisions for them and in exchange for sex will provide for them. So, in the end, the man has the power because the woman has given it to him, thinking she’s gotten something. There’s no equality there for either gender. Co-dependency yes.

The woman who ran over her husband handed over her power to him and is rewarded for that by mental doctors?

I don’t get it.

The women and girls being raped in Haiti…who is protecting them? Men or women? Does it matter? Should it matter? Apparently, yes.

]]> By: Michelle Robbins http://www.akesana.com/2010/02/02/women-who-ask-for-it/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Michelle Robbins Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:20:20 +0000 http://www.akesana.com/?p=461#comment-139 Another sad but true statistic has to do with same crime sentencing for men vs. women. Women that commit violent crimes typically receive harsher sentences (often, the maximum available) even though women are less likely to recidivate. Women that commit violent crimes tend to do so circumstantially (crimes of passion, mental breakdown) and tend to kill people they know (usually husband, boyfriend, children). Men kill everyone (family and strangers) and have higher rates of recidivism for the spectrum of violent crimes. Yet women receive harsher penalties. Men kill their spouses, girlfriends, children everyday, often in front of their children - yet it rarely makes national news. Perhaps because it *is* so commonplace. Which makes it all the more horrifying. Yet when a woman kills a spouse, boyfriend or child, she is nationally reviled. Regardless of the extenuating circumstances. And to think I actually know women who believe that we are equal. That we no longer need a feminist movement. Another sad but true statistic has to do with same crime sentencing for men vs. women. Women that commit violent crimes typically receive harsher sentences (often, the maximum available) even though women are less likely to recidivate. Women that commit violent crimes tend to do so circumstantially (crimes of passion, mental breakdown) and tend to kill people they know (usually husband, boyfriend, children). Men kill everyone (family and strangers) and have higher rates of recidivism for the spectrum of violent crimes. Yet women receive harsher penalties.

Men kill their spouses, girlfriends, children everyday, often in front of their children – yet it rarely makes national news. Perhaps because it *is* so commonplace. Which makes it all the more horrifying. Yet when a woman kills a spouse, boyfriend or child, she is nationally reviled. Regardless of the extenuating circumstances.

And to think I actually know women who believe that we are equal. That we no longer need a feminist movement.

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