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"How convenient that all the feedback agreeing with this article is from men. This article seeks to, yet again, usurp feminist principles (as if we haven't heard all the useless anti-feminist propaganda before).
Why is it that when a woman is in the spotlight in the media, "feminism" has to be noted with negative connotations. This issue is not about whether feminism has failed, it is about public opinion and the treatment of criminals. People like Janet are quick to make note of reverse sexism, yet don't acknowledge that this society is full of stereotyping and preconcieved notions. Please, The Australian, give us something better than a writer trying to earn male votes and males who gloat at feminine "failure".
Catherine Cincotta
Melbourne, Vic"
Here is a woman that attacks an editorial without understanding the mechanisms that brought the commentary into place. Blinders, yes. Common sense; what's common sense?
Mitchell A. Smith
"An ambiguous perspective is all you can hope for when initially confronted by that which you do not know."
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by Anonymous User on Friday May 30, @04:47AM EST (#2)
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...This is an absolutely excellent article. The feminist letter was simply pathetic. This issue is just another example of women clinging to traditional female privilege. In the pre-feminist world there was a certain justification in permitting maternal murder. In those days, women were forced to bear children and then to look after them, whether they wanted to or not. Also, society regarded them as helpless and basically irrational (for hormonal reasons). As a result, society tended to be very lenient in cases where mothers murdered their children.
However, today there can be no justification for these murders. Women are no longer forced to bear children or to look after them. Feminists have debunked the myth that women are helpless defenceless creatures who can't be held responsible for their actions.
The central cause of the injustice facing men is that women have the privileges of "liberation" and yet, amazingly, are succeeding in holding onto the privileges they enjoyed in the pre-feminist world. This is evident in family law, criminal law, the military, etc etc.
Women have now no right to retain traditional pre-feminist privilege. Men should no longer accord them those privileges.
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Anonymous, I agree that women today enjoy equal rights without equal responsibilities and that they (including feminists) insist on being held to lower standards of accountability. I'm not sure that I agree with the idea that the historic pressure on women to have and raise children justified maternal murder -- any more than the pressure on men to support and protect their families justified paternal murder of wives or children. IMO if you're going to make the argument that mothers were justified in killing their children, then you've got to extend the same consideration to males. (Sexual roles have burdened and limited both women and men.) If you don't, then you appear to be falling in to the same old rut of holding women to lower standards of personal responsibility.
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by Anonymous User on Saturday May 31, @04:17AM EST (#4)
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Gregory,
I don't think maternal murder was justifiable in pre-feminist days. The point I was trying to make was that society felt it to be justifiable-hence the refusal to prosecute women for these crimes .
To-day society forces men to fulfill the traditional obligations of being a husband and father whilst removing the traditional privileges of being a husband and father. Conversely, society has liberated women from all the traditional obligations of being a wife and mother whilst maintaining all the traditional privileges of being a wife and mother. The "privilege" of letting women get away with maternal murder is just one example of this process.
Regards,
Anon
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