Maybe there is a massive difference between American policemen and British policemen, but none of LKH's police scenes ever ring true to me (I worked for the police several years back). I could tell you lots of pretty awful stories about certain police officers, but by and large they are absolutely no different from anyone in any other professions. Sure there are some dickheads, but are dickheads everywhere, but the police force in my experience is not a hotbed of misogyny, gossip, and jealousy.
Women are less likely to be active abusers, but when they are, it's usually more violent.
I worked in the Criminal Justice Unit. I saw countless files and cases dealing with abuse of all kinds. I saw two files where the accused were female. The first case was a drunken brawl between a group of women. The second was a mother sexually abusing her son. I raise this not because I know the stats better than LKH (I don't know the stats at all), but because the idea that women are more violent than men, again, doesn't ring true. In my experience, female violence (against other women or men) was largely the exception. I saw probably thousands of examples of male-on-male and male-on-female violence of all kinds - rape, domestic abuse, drunken fighting, etc. I only saw two cases of female violence against men or other women. I would love to know LKH's sources for her sweeping generalisations.
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Date: 2013-10-08 09:10 am (UTC)Women are less likely to be active abusers, but when they are, it's usually more violent.
I worked in the Criminal Justice Unit. I saw countless files and cases dealing with abuse of all kinds. I saw two files where the accused were female. The first case was a drunken brawl between a group of women. The second was a mother sexually abusing her son. I raise this not because I know the stats better than LKH (I don't know the stats at all), but because the idea that women are more violent than men, again, doesn't ring true. In my experience, female violence (against other women or men) was largely the exception. I saw probably thousands of examples of male-on-male and male-on-female violence of all kinds - rape, domestic abuse, drunken fighting, etc. I only saw two cases of female violence against men or other women. I would love to know LKH's sources for her sweeping generalisations.