You asked why there are fewer female mass murders then men. The difference between men and women is explained by biological factors. The difference between American men and say French men is explained by a lot of factors.
Actually, yes. The phenomena has only been observed in the Atlantic. This being off the cost of Virginia and Scotland.'
Also odd, this from the first article I posted.
It's clearly murder.
To busy making sammiches.Poll: Why are there so few female mass murderers?
Awww you beat me to it :2wave:Because they're too busy in the kitchen to kill people.
That's mainly do to occupational choices. More men are getting shot in military service or injured/killed in construction/machinist trades than women.It is a fact that women live longer than men.
To busy making sammiches.
I am nothing if not reliable :2wave:Exactly the response I would expect from you Jerry!
We don't know if it is only being observed there or if the killing only occurs there. Let's say, it only occurs there. I'd guess then that the issue is overcrowding and a shortage of food, being that the North Atlantic is over-fished and a relatively small body of water. But, I'm just guessing.So that rules out a biological cause.
What is about the Atlantic ocean make this happen only there?
I am nothing if not reliable :2wave:
I think men would have a more violent demeanor on average and that may fuel the reason why more mass shooters happen to be men.
If the large number of mass murders are much higher for men than women in the US due just to biology, there would also be a large difference between men and women in other developed nations.
Why do you think men's violent demeanor is so much greater than women in the US as compared to other developed nations when it comes to intentional homicides, digsbe?
Well, if you could find me a country that has close to a 50/50 split between men and women mass murderers, then I would be able to consider your argument.
Like I said, do you know of a country in which women have more of a violent demeanor then men?
It's not that women in other developed countries commit more intentional homicides than men that makes the US ratio so strikingly different. It is that US males commit way more more intentional homicides than in other developed countries compared to women.
I'm willing to bet that you'd be hard pressed to find a single country where the ratio is less then 75% men.
Most mass murderer's world wide are male -
"The collection of general statistics and characteristics about mass murderers is informative. We find that the mass murderer is almost always male"
Profiling Mass Murderers
The killers: "Half of the cases involved school or workplace shootings (12 and 19, respectively); the other 31 cases took place in locations including shopping malls, restaurants, and religious and government buildings. Forty four of the killers were white males. Only one of them was a woman. (See Goleta, Calif., in 2006.) The average age of the killers was 35, though the youngest among them was a mere 11 years old. (See Jonesboro, Ark., in 1998.) A majority were mentally ill—and many displayed signs of it before setting out to kill. Explore the map for further details—we do not consider it to be all-inclusive, but based on the criteria we used we believe that we've produced the most comprehensive rundown available on this particular type of violence. (Mass shootings represent only a sliver of America's overall gun violence.) For a timeline listing all the cases on the map, including photos of the killers, jump to page 2. For the stories of the 151 shooting rampage victims of 2012, click here, and for all of MoJo's year-long investigation into gun laws and mass shootings, click here."
A Guide to Mass Shootings in America | Mother Jones
But for some reason, there are way more mass murders in the US than other developed nation:
"As a 2011 United Nations report notes, America has a “relatively high homicide rate compared to other countries with a similar socio-economic level,”
"For 15-year olds to 24-year olds, firearm homicide rates in the United States were 42.7 times higher than in the other countries.”
Mass murder, shooting sprees and rampage violence: Research roundup – Journalist's Resource: Research for Reporting, from Harvard Shorenstein Center
Now, the question is why?
It's not that women in other developed countries commit more intentional homicides than men that makes the US ratio so strikingly different. It is that US males commit way more more intentional homicides than in other developed countries compared to women.
You literally just proved my entire point. The vast majority of all murderers are male, no matter where we are talking about.
If you want to know why the America has a higher murder rate then other countries, you have to look at things like the prevalance of street gangs, influence of drugs, our culture etc. etc.
Oh that was your point? I wondered what the hell you were talking about! I stated that many pages ago. You should have just read the thread, or at the very least, glanced up at the thread title.
Now the question is why "for 15-year olds to 24-year olds, firearm homicide rates in the United States were 42.7 times higher than in the other countries.”
Other countries also have those things so that's not it.
What is different here? More guns? Or hegemonic masculinity?
From above:
" Hamamoto (2002)
argues that the United States produce most of the world’s mass
murderers because of a “blow back” by civilians scripting
violence in a hyper-militarised America which started with the
increasing military adventures after World War II. Research on
mass murder is relatively limited when compared to other
forms of multiple homicide (Bowers, et al, 2010), yet several
authors have identified descriptive characteristics, patterns, and
typologies that differentiate mass murder from other forms of
multiple murder and from murder in general."
(Fox & Levin,2012, Bowers, et al, 2010, Bartol & Bartol, 2011)
Because we're not them - and they are not us.
And of course - all such statistics rule out areas that are steeped in undeniable unrest: counties in South America and the Middle East, for example, are amid serious upheaval . . . and it's not all war related.
Stats on an international basis are incomplete and thus unreliable. . . how many murders were committed - outside of declarations of national war (military) - within Mexico alone in the last year? Ten years?
People want to claim the US is most heinously violent - but considering the troubles in other countires that are persistent: it's inaccurate, to say the least.
Such statistics also present reported and cataloged crimes - many countries don't have the means to catalog and follow up on each one that occurs.
Comparing us to the 'rest of the world' is really only comparing us to 'countries who maintain a solid database' like we do.
So you don't believe that testosterone plays a part?
Take steroids for instance..an artificial testosterone..and can cause hyper-aggressive behaviour...
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