THE MYTH OF MALE POWER
by Warren Farrell
Women Who Kill Too Much and the Courts That Free Them:
The Twelve “Female-Only” Defenses (P.254)
• #1. The “Innocent Woman Defense”/”Innocent Woman Principle P. 255
• #2. The “PMS Defense”: paves the way for the “TP Defense”—the “Testosterone Poisoning Defense” P.261
• #3.The “Husband Defense”: quintessential “learned helplessness”. P.261
• #4. The “Battered Woman Syndrome” Defense: Pre-meditated murder is now self-defense—but only if a woman is accused; and only if a man is murdered. P.262
• #5. The “Depressed Mother” Defense: Baby Blues and Terrible Twos P.271
• #6. “The Mothers Don’t Kill” Defense P.271
• #7. The “Children Need Their Mother” Defense: More a rationalization to free women than a prioritization to love children. P.272
• #8. The “Blame the Father, Understand the Mother” Defense P.273
• #9. The “My Child My Right to Abuse It” Defense: A million crack-addicted children have been born since 1987; only 60 of the mothers have faced criminal charges. P.274
• #10. The “Plea Bargain” Defense: Women are seen as more innocent, their testimony more valued, leading prosecutors to offer them the plea bargain in crimes committed jointly by a woman and a man. P.275
• #11. The “Svengali Defense”: Men have always exercised malevolent influence over women, and women seem to be soft touches for it. P.276
• #12. The “Contract Killing Defense”
• We now consider it liberal to favor a woman exercising the death penalty and to oppose the government exercising the death penalty. P.280
• Contract killings never get recorded as a woman killing a man. P.281
• We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness. P.282
Also see: Women as Violent if not More Violent than Men in personal relationships
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
For dumping his ex-girlfriend.