Dangerous Women

Why Mothers, Daughters and Sisters become Murders, Stalkers and Molesters.

By Larry A. Morris

Book Review:

As a nonfiction writer, I seek out books existing in the sociological realm (psycho-social though, I don't really believe sociology as a science, they just exist to put a name to what we already know).

This book was fascinating and takes to task the idea of 'sugar and spice and everyone nice'... I know it's 'everything' but yeah.

The stats are rather alarming but also continually show the obvious: for 30% of women in jail, the other 70% are STILL MALE.

Hm.

Also, for every, oh 25% of women who are found to be stalkers/molesters/murders, they have a male counterpart that is astoundingly high. Let's face it, the book is a great exploration of case studies and psych behind violent or bad behaviour, but men are still way, way worse. And men are the perpetrators of women who are dangerous.

For each case study, there was a history of childhood sexual abuse, either by a family member, parent or friend of the family. The abuse continued into adulthood in almost every cirumstance, and it was always a male.

Women who abused did so because they couldn't form a proper approach to sexuality and treating others. They simply didn't know how to.

This book also had some continuity errors that confused me, like during a case story he would be discussing someone's mother's mother, then refer to them as the 'mother' in the next sentence. Quoi??

Read the book, but in my focused lense, men are the causation of violent and dangerous women. Without a catalyst of horrible abuse, there wouldn't exist percentages of violent women. Environmental/nature/nuture factors follow here, and without a nurturing and positive environment, women can and do become violent abusers. But hey, can we go, men started it?

Maybe.