Gender Politics and Victimhood

[FrankGSterleJr]

When it comes to violent crimes, the typically non-addressed elephant in the room is: WHY are some men so predisposed to violence, including against women?

Unlike with female offenders, male offenders are promptly demonized by all three forms of Western media — entertainment, news and social — without any concern as to the likely trauma the men have suffered at some point, especially in their cerebrally formative years.

With men, they’re socially, albeit implicitly, expected to suck up their trauma as real men would/should. Then they turn to heavy self-medicating, which, if anything, exacerbates their suppressed trauma and untreated anger. And a vicious cycle can readily self-perpetuate.

Contrarily, with female offenders it’s like there’s an assumption that someone, likely a male relation, must have messed her up via serious abuse. They’re very much encouraged by the media to speak up/out about any abuse they suffered; they’re meant to promptly receive sympathy along with criminal justice against their abuser [nowadays without any critical eye as to possible fabrication].

For example, when Sabrina Kauldhar, a relatively-large 30-year-old woman with a violent history, (allegedly) arbitrarily stabbed to death without provocation three men in separate incidents in early autumn who were complete strangers to her. CBC News brought on a guest who strongly suggested the suspect must have suffered some past trauma or victimization that caused her to behave so indiscriminately violent.

Meantime, there remains a subtle societal take-it-like-a-man mentality, one in which many young males will choose to abstain from ‘complaining’ about their turmoil, even sexual victimization, as that is what ‘real men’ do.

A similar mindset also persists, albeit perhaps subconsciously: Men can take care of themselves, and boys are basically little men. It could be the same mindset that might help explain why the author of Childhood Disrupted was only able to include one male among its six interviewed subjects, there presumably being such a small pool of ACE-traumatized males willing to formally tell his own story of traumatic childhood adversity.

[Impenitent]

easy targets...

macho "he man" isn't so tough against another (actual) macho "he man" so he picks an easier target

justice comes when "macho he man" criminal is confronted by the real thing in prison

-Imp