This thread is about the comments that were made on the show "The Talk" - a panel of women discussing the event of the women (Catherine Kieu Becker) who cut off her husbands private part and threw it in the garbage disposal just because he filed a divorse and had a fight about friends staying over.
This raises questions... If it was a women who was mutilated, I'm sure that these women would have been very supportive and sympathetic towards her, but no, since it was a male they made jokes about this gruesome mutilation (Take note, it's gone forever!). Are we more sympathetic to women and why?
I think that's terrible. Those women are really sexist and I wonder what got them to belive they're better then men. We should be equal. Also I think we are in society more sympathetic to them but we're worse to them in other ways.
It seems that violence towards men by women is always viewed as being somehow 'less serious' than violence by men towards women. I really don't think that it's fair. Then again, I don't think there's complete equality between genders in many areas, sexism still exists in a less direct and more inferred/implied form and it works both ways - portraying men in sexist ways and portraying women in sexist ways.
Yes, I think we are. We see women as the weaker sex. They are generally less aggressive and less violent. We can't imagine that they can be "as brutal as men". Like yioup said: They get the pity points.
