Mom kills, dad kills: Two takes on tragedy The rest of the article is worth a read because it compares and contrasts between the Yates case and this one. Do we really take a different view when it is the father who kills as opposed to the mother? Men are expected to be violent. Women are not. Both the stereotype of the ultra-violent man and the angelic woman are false, but quite pervasive (at least in my experience). Therefore, when a man does something horrible people aren't that surprised. When a woman does - well, that makes the headlines. It's a "double standard" but the strange thing is I can't figure out whom it's against. Women, because their ultra-violent acts get more media attention? Men, because they're sort of assumed to be ultra-violent anyway and so nobody is really surprised? Peace.
