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- From: bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris)
- Subject: Re: violence
- Organization: Motorola, CCR&D, CORP, Schaumburg, IL
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:51:59 GMT
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- Rini writes: (quoting some unpublished research - just the tail end of a
- long post)
-
- >
- > "The differential treatment of women offenders does not appear to be
- > simply an issue of 'better or worse' treatment compared to men's. ...
- > It seems that women are sanctioned more severely for some offenses,
- > and men for others."
-
- I do find it easy to believe that chivalry and paternalism have a flip
- side in some of the areas you mention (such as competency hearings)
- which negatively affects women.
-
- I still feel that it's generally the same paternalistic/chivalric attitudes
- which tend to fuel much of the 'violence against women' movement, though -
- (IMO).
-
- I have not totally reconciled all the conflicts I feel about this issue.
- One one hand, I think things really would be better if everyone treated the
- issue in a gender neutral manner. On the other hand, given the reality of
- the political process as it exists today, I feel that men conforming to
- gender steroetypes and remaining silent about violence and how it affects
- them ('taking it like a man') and women complaining about it and painting it
- as a gender issue creates a false impression of the issues, and I think it
- really does hurt men as a group by making it less likely that their needs in
- this area will be addressed.
-