There are, to be blunt, some crazy, crazy bitches out there. I know of a woman who, pissed at her man, pulled a knife on him on the bus one night. The bus driver stopped the bus and, thankfully, was able to get that crazy woman and her man off the bus without further incident. I've head/read about females of various ages pulling knives and guns on both genders (a few of those times were to rob the victim). On the not-crazy-but-extremely-motivated front Lorena Bobbitt whacked off her husband's penis, when my dad was in the Air Force, a wife chased her husband around the base with a meat cleaver when he came back from a deployment to Korea with VD, and how many wives/girlfriends have mutilated or killed their SOs for (suspicion of) cheating?
When it comes to violent crime, there are fewer women convicted than men and women who murder are more likely to use subtle means such as poisoning than violent means such as stabbing, bludgeoning, or strangling, but just because we're less likely to do something doesn't mean we never will. I'm not a violent person and I prefer to settle things with words whenever possible, but there have been times when I know I'd have physically attacked a certain person if they'd been within reach, and if I ever felt threatened and had a chance to grab something to clobber what was threatening me, I'd do it.
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Date: 2012-12-11 01:29 am (UTC)There are, to be blunt, some crazy, crazy bitches out there. I know of a woman who, pissed at her man, pulled a knife on him on the bus one night. The bus driver stopped the bus and, thankfully, was able to get that crazy woman and her man off the bus without further incident. I've head/read about females of various ages pulling knives and guns on both genders (a few of those times were to rob the victim). On the not-crazy-but-extremely-motivated front Lorena Bobbitt whacked off her husband's penis, when my dad was in the Air Force, a wife chased her husband around the base with a meat cleaver when he came back from a deployment to Korea with VD, and how many wives/girlfriends have mutilated or killed their SOs for (suspicion of) cheating?
When it comes to violent crime, there are fewer women convicted than men and women who murder are more likely to use subtle means such as poisoning than violent means such as stabbing, bludgeoning, or strangling, but just because we're less likely to do something doesn't mean we never will. I'm not a violent person and I prefer to settle things with words whenever possible, but there have been times when I know I'd have physically attacked a certain person if they'd been within reach, and if I ever felt threatened and had a chance to grab something to clobber what was threatening me, I'd do it.