I find it a bit too slick and formulaic, myself. Though, although men are killed by women, it's not usually by the kind of spontaneous explosive violence in an interpersonal situation that women I would guess fear from men - battered women have trouble getting self-defence pleas accepted, because they wait till husband is asleep or dead drunk or somehow out of it before cutting him up or setting him on fire. And although women do kill men/sexual partners, they also (from historical studies of murderesses I've read) kill children, dependent relatives for whom they are caregivers (out of exhaustion, mercy, or for the insurance money), etc, just as, if not more, often. But I have a feeling that men are more likely both to kill, and be killed, by other men - extrapolating from the fact that the majority of both perpetrators and victims of violent assault are males aged 18-25.
Have also recently read review of book on Victorian poisonings by acquaintance of mine that suggests, from looking at the general run of cases rather than the big famous ones, that poison was not just a woman's weapon - lots of men - just as many if not more> - resorted to it too. (Which is a bit tangential.)
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Date: 2005-11-13 07:09 pm (UTC)Have also recently read review of book on Victorian poisonings by acquaintance of mine that suggests, from looking at the general run of cases rather than the big famous ones, that poison was not just a woman's weapon - lots of men - just as many if not more> - resorted to it too. (Which is a bit tangential.)