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Media and courts treat women like delicate little flowers instead of full human beings

National Post ^ | July 11, 2014 | Christie Blatchford

Posted on by Squawk 8888

Its called the chivalry hypothesis, and as Dr. Rob Whitley says, what it suggests is that judges and journalists tend to portray men as villains and women as victims.

Hes one of the authors of a new McGill University study which looked at how Canadian newspapers describe mental illness and particularly if the chivalry hypothesis holds even when the women are involved in violence or criminality.

In other words, are articles about mentally ill women different from those about mentally ill men and are the women treated more generously?

After examining 1,168 newspaper articles published over six months, the answer was pretty much a resounding yes, albeit with the usual academic qualifications.

Stories that depicted men with a definitive or alleged mental illness were more stigmatizing  they focused upon crime, danger and violence  while those about women were significantly more likely to have recovery as a theme and to focus upon background information such as mental health interventions.

These articles more frequently portrayed women compassionately as victims of circumstances or passions beyond their control, the authors wrote.

However, this kind of background information was routinely lacking in articles about men, who were routinely portrayed in a more dismissive and contemptuous manner portrayals of women appear to be more sympathetic and considered; more frequently being portrayed as sad.



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To: Clive; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; Cannoneer No. 4; ...

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To: Squawk 8888



Well, it didn't work well for the little prince

To: Squawk 8888

Man getting his member cut off..hilarious. Man cutting breast cut off....monster. Divorce court giving 50% of man’s net worth to childless non-working female=justice. Non-working man demanding 50% of woman’s net worth at divorce=outrageous



by 4 posted onby Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)

To: Squawk 8888

Sounds like this is some kind of bull dike writing this. Women are full human beings AND delicate and fragile. Those are not mutually exclusive characteristics. Bull dikes want women to be like men. That's when the earth falls through.



To: PapaNew

Christie Blatchford is arguably the best court writer in North America, and has no time for women who play the gender card (especially the likes of serial killer Karla Homulka). She has also done excellent work exposing the abuses perpetrated by child welfare agencies.



To: Squawk 8888

the media is full of girless type men who are not really men. Few people in the media know the difference between right and wrong.



To: Squawk 8888

A couple of Sailors versus a couple of Marines get into a fight in a bar, a story as old as the hills, but the two Marines are females, is it still just a fist fight, or something else?



by 8 posted onby ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)

To: PapaNew

they aren’t all delicate and fragile. they are masters at emotional abuse and manipulation. many admit to doing this stuff starting fights.



To: Secret Agent Man

Well, looks like you've had some problems with your chicks. I know they can be manipulative, but they're also lovely, delicate creatures. I also think along with that come easy deception. I really think we'd be better off if they didn't vote and if they'd just let men be men and love their lives as wives, Mom's, and homemakers. They were happier once upon a time doing that.



To: PapaNew

it is sexist and dangerous to regard women as “delicate”. you’ll end up dead one way or another by them or a man they’ve manipulated to do the job for them. they are far more devious and planning and calculating. this kind of thinking gets people killed for under-valuing threats. same with kids. kids murder too. some have no conscience and would kill you without one bit of remorse.



To: Secret Agent Man

sexist That's funny - so I'll get killed if I call a woman delicate? Well, you know, if that's the kind of world it becomes, they would be doing me a favor. What does "sexist" mean anyway? Does it mean that girls are different than boys? How stupid can anything be???



To: Squawk 8888

I believe they forgot to include the articles about the faeries in this study...because, certainly, they are mentally disordered (should never have been removed from the DSM in the early ‘70’s), and receive the same treatment by media and courts and women, but yet are men...or at least males.



by 13 posted onby jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)

To: Secret Agent Man

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) The Female of the Species WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man, He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can. But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws, They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws. 'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say, For the Woman that God gave him isn't his to give away; But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other's tale The female of the species is more deadly than the male. Man, a bear in most relationsworm and savage otherwise, Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise. Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act. Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low, To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe. Mirth obscene diverts his angerDoubt and Pity oft perplex Him in dealing with an issueto the scandal of The Sex! But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same; And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail, The female of the species must be deadlier than the male. She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast May not deal in doubt or pitymust not swerve for fact or jest. These be purely male diversionsnot in these her honour dwells She the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else. She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate. And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same. She is wedded to convictionsin default of grosser ties; Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies! He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild, Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child. Unprovoked and awful chargeseven so the she-bear fights, Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisonseven so the cobra bites, Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw And the victim writhes in anguishlike the Jesuit with the squaw! So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands To some God of Abstract Justicewhich no woman understands. And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him Must command but may not governshall enthral but not enslave him. And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail, That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.



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