A sickening double standard
When women kill their babies, they are merely mentally ill. But when a man kills his children, he does it out of spite.
To be clear: mothers do kill.
In fact, of all children killed by a parent, half are killed by their mothers. But the difference is that men, as shown by the examples above, are known to be able to kill out of spite.
When women kill their children, they almost always do it because they are mentally ill.
In most cases, they are suffering from post-natal depression; in others, they have undiagnosed diseases such as schizophrenia.
Oh, well, when you put it that way! The poor addle-headed darlings!
What bullshit. If you kill your kids, you are a monster, regardless of the reason. If you are willing to murder the most innocent in your home, you are an animal - really. Cats eat their young, rats eat their young, and only bastards kill their children. Male or female, they are bastards.
It is clear that the author of this piece has quite a hate-on for men.
Some men, and their children, are certainly dealt a lousy hand in matters of custody, maintenance and access.
But I also believe that among all the men I have known who bellyache about their lot, almost without exception their real grievance is rooted in their relationship with their former wife - and ‘anguish’ about ‘missing’ the children is just a stick with which to beat her.
It’s amazing how many men get over the ‘grief’ within moments of finding a new woman.
I know a lot of daddies - married and divorced - who would actually pop a vein if they read that drivel. My guess is that any father who could so easily “get over” their kids because of a woman, probably wouldn’t go to the length of killing them.
Not that I in any way think these men should be let off. They should be convicted (if they don’t commit suicide), and given the harshest punishment on the books. But so should the murdering women who kill their kids. I don’t want to hear about post-partum bullshit when some broad has enough of screaming and dirty diapers, and drives her car full of kids into a lake.
…only the pottiest of fathers’ groups could equate the bond formed by nine months in the womb, birth and breast-feeding with the relatively cursory involvement of a man in the creation of a child.
I’ve know some man-haters in my time, but this writer - Carol Sarler - takes the cake.
Then you have stupidity like this judge
From the NP
Quebec girl wins court case over field trip
Father had denied her right to go on class trip
Jenny Wagler, National Post
Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=597169
Comment by Pissedoff — June 18, 2008 @ 11:23 pm
Is it because I linked to the NP that the comment doesn’t come up?
Comment by Pissedoff — June 18, 2008 @ 11:25 pm
“relatively cursory involvement of a man in the creation of a child”
I think this may be a hint regarding her attitude toward men - too many cursory involvements…
Comment by F W Flock — June 19, 2008 @ 6:29 am
I left a comment as well, they are premoderated and I’d be surprised if either of ours show up.
Comment by Eric — June 19, 2008 @ 9:43 am
Since my comment at “femail” will probably never see the light of day, I’ll post it here:
So any man who “misses his child” is actually metaphorically beating his wife with a stick? Why don’t you tell us how you really feel? Oh wait, you did:
“of all children killed by a parent, half are killed by their mothers. But the difference is that men, as shown by the examples above, are known to be able to kill out of spite.”
Trying to draw a moral distinction between male and female child killers belittles their crime and reveals your true agenda. Let’s be clear, anyone who kills a child is “mentally ill”, male or female. That doesn’t reduce the heinousness of their crime. I don’t know how you can conclude that “only a crazy mother would do this but sane father’s do”. Did you draw that conclusion scientifically? I’d love to see your data. More likely you have an extremely warped view of men. Instead of decrying men whose “real grievance is rooted in their relationship with their former wife”, maybe you should look yourself in the mirror and examine your own motives.
I would have gotten into the “cursory involvement” comment or pointed out that while she’s outraged at making excuses for men, she’s making excuses for women, but I ran up against the 1000 word limit.
Comment by Eric — June 19, 2008 @ 9:49 am
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