Jono wrote:
LKL wrote:
"bred"?
"Bred" is probably not the right word. It may be the case that violence by women was more suppressed in pre-feminist patriarchal society due to adherence to gender roles (aggression being associated with masculinity and all that), which feminism has been changing rather than there being more women with the propensity for violence. However, regardless of how gender roles related to violence in the past, the fact that people of genders always had the propensity for violence has got nothing to do with feminism and consequently, if there has been a rise in violence then that is not the fault of feminism either.
This is probably true. From what I've heard, women's participation in sports, and even their participation in violent crimes, has been creeping up.
In my own case I'm a fairly physically confident woman, and am capable of defending myself, but I think that's more to do with the AS than the feminism; in fact, I think that the feminism is due to the AS, too. I'm just not good at internalizing the subtle things that the culture puts out telling me how women 'should' be. My reaction is generally, 'that's not how I am, and I'm a woman, so the expectations are wrong,' rather than, 'I need to change myself to fit the stereotype.'
17 Oct 2013, 9:39 am
