Well if I had cable, I guess I could have seen it. As for the local 6pm news, I don't watch it, unless we FReeped somebody :)
"Since you are so emotionally involved with this topic, you should investigate the psychological and physiological differences between men and women. I'd venture a guess about your two examples...the mother was planning to leave the man. Am I right?"
You know what they say about judgement prior to investigation don't you? It's called prejudice, the prerequisite for all feminists. Thanks for proving my point for me dear.
Do you know what a guess is? Did I say the man was abusive? Did I say that the mother of his children was right to leave? Nope. If anything will make a man despondent enough to murder his children and kill himself, a threat against his right to father his children will do it. There is a big difference between despair, lunacy, and blind rage. I think you're being a little disingenuous about the examples you cited.
(a).Woman kills children and self; feminist conclusion = she's whacko.
(b). Man kills children and self; feminist conclusion = he was jilted.
Jilted? Don't put words into my mouth. I didn't say jilted. In fact it never entered my mind.
I hope you're beginning to see your built-in prejudices and fermenting feminism by now. :o)
I don't think you bothered to read my last reply to you. Let me rephrase: it is not a lockstep feminist reaction when we recoil at the thought of a woman who kills her own baby. It is unthinkable to those of us who have children, heck most people in general feel sick thinking about it. Why? Because we are genetically and socially conditioned to believe that a mother won't hurt her own children. It is unnatural to us. Unthinkable! Something is wrong! Next time you bump into a feminist, why not ask her about how she feels about this particular case, because I'm not a feminist so I can't supply the reply you are looking for.
Abortion? No comment. If I agree with you about anything, I sure as hell won't admit it.
Hey, you're a barrel of laughs. Let's debate Susan Smith and Andrea Yates!!
PS: My daughter and son in law just read all this stuff and busted a gut laughing at the idea of me being a feminist. Have a nice evening.
"Jilted? Don't put words into my mouth. I didn't say jilted. In fact it never entered my mind."
Your two consecutive posts are totally incongruent. First you make the guess that the mother was planning to leave the man, then you make the claim that the man being jilted never entered your mind as a reason for his murders. Huh? Are you now saying that a wife planning to leave her husband isn't "jilting" him? This is getting ridiculous.
But back to the original point. Wife kills children and commits suicide. While the story is still breaking I read posts about her "post-partum depression" being a mitigating factor, and the fact that somebody said they heard her screaming. Automatic assumption by the feminists = "She must be whacko".
Now, man kills children and commits suicide. Automatic conclusion = "I would venture a guess his wife was planning on leaving him...". I'd like to know why you wouldn't "venture a guess" that he was clinically depressed and on meds as a first thought? Why the unequal balance of empathy or unequal ability to give the same benefit of the doubt to both sexes? Just curious.