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.