I think in general people talk about what is a man's crime and what is a woman's crime. I think the whole bloody mess that results from shooting has more to do with avoiding using guns in general, than the ease of pulling a trigger.
Similarly, you seldom see women taking up hunting. Hardly anyone hunts in the US exclusively to get food for themselves or their family. So why aren't women joining the men, or going out on their own? A girls' weekend out hunting. It's so inconsistent with expectation it's almost fodder for comdey. You just never hear about it. Messy and bloody and yucky. So here is the bigger psychological question, are women raised to not like blood and gore, or is there some biological predisposition to avoid blood and gore? Hence women will prefer the cleaner ways of doing away with people, such as poison. I'm not counting suicide in here because women clearly do shoot themselves, but the premise is that they will not be around to deal with or see the resulting mess. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:53:39 -0500 >From: Ken Steele <steel...@appstate.edu> >Subject: Re: [tips] Neuroscientist Denied Tenure Goes On Shooting Spree >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" ><tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> > >Mike Palij wrote: >> A biology professor at the University of Alabama-Huntsville who was >> denied tenure Friday (02/12) morning, apparently came back and shot >> up a faculty meeting, killing 3 people. See: >> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35372168/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/ >> >.... >> It's early and I'm sure that there will be more details that will clarify >> what happened. It's just very strange that it was a female faculty >> who did the shooting. >> >> -Mike Palij >> New York University >> m...@nyu.edu >> > >Hi Mike: > >I agree it is statistically unlikely that the shooter is female >but I find the lack of female shooters to be odd also. > >Shooting a pistol does not take a lot of physical strength. The >requirement is good eye/hand coordination. The arms industry has >been targeting (oops) women for many years under the flag of >"self-defense" training. I keep expecting the number of women >shooters to show an increase. > >Ken > >--------------------------------------------------------------- >Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. steel...@appstate.edu >Professor >Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu >Appalachian State University >Boone, NC 28608 >USA >--------------------------------------------------------------- > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to tips as: tay...@sandiego.edu. >To unsubscribe click here: >http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0&n=T&l=tips&o=575 >or send a blank email to >leave-575-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=579 or send a blank email to leave-579-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
