men are no sirangers to

THE clodhopper’s
traipse across the
Middle East that
Prime Minister Jean
Chretien performed
was replete with sea-
soned word salads and
assorted political mala-
propisms.

One of the PM's less vex-
ing statements, I guess, was
his call to stop honour
killings in the area.

Ugrew up not far from a
Palestinian village called
Tira. My stepfather, a Jewish
doctor whose life's work was
in these villages, was called
on routinely and clandestine-
ly to repair ‘ruptured hymens
in order to prevent the mur-
der of an “unchaste” girl by
the males in her family. Like
all violence against women,
to Chretien, this brutality is
but another example of the
patriarchy at work, or is it?

The PM’s administration
certainly holds fast to this
outsized construct — prefer-

. fing te blame alleged vio-
lence against women in
Canada on the patriarchy,
rather than put it down,
such that it is, to measurable
and documented causal fac-
tors.

Chretien’s handmaidens
at Status of Women have an
eye’s view on violence in
relationships, which admits
only of woman as oppressed.
male as oppressor. The
Zeitgeist concurs.

While it is agreed that
women can be as smart, as
ambitious, even as lusty as
men, where the baser
instincts are concerned, men

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and women somehow part
company.

Female aggression is only
ever in self-defence, and
female Medea-like impulses
solely the result of PMS,
Battered Woman Syndrome,
postpartum depression, post-
traumatic stress disorder, or
whatever the fashionable
excuse happens to be.

Harking back to the
extreme example of honour
killings; a clamp-down on
such crime would have to
target village women togeth-
er with their executioner
men. For when studying
female aggression in the
Palestinian Authority,
anthropologist Ilsa Glaser
observed that “women acted
as instigators and collabora-
tors in these murders,
unleashing a torrent of gos-
sip that spurred the accusa-
tions.”

I am not here suggesting
that preparing the grounds
for murder is tantamount to
taking a life, but the fact
remains that women are in
on the act.

What is true though is
that women’s aggression is
different from that of men,
which explains why it is so
easy to misconstrue.

As Patricia Pearson notes

ib her 1997 book When She
Was Bad, from an carly age
women opt for underhand
and tmanipulative strategies
such as “bullving, name call-
ing, excommunteating and
gossiping” to achieve their
ends.

With Karla Homotka you
stare ‘nto the maw of evil.
Yet Homolka hasn‘t quite
graduated in public opinion,
or at least in the media, to
murderess and rapist. Last I
Jooked, one reporter offered
her up as a “killer's helper.”

Why, the woman who
combined with feral gusto an
active social life with the
dedicated activity of abduc-
tion, murder and rape, has
not even received the kind of
treatment befitting a danger-
ous sex offender. This is
because she is not considered
one.

Homolka is a recipient of
a jailhouse protocol called
“Improving Your Inner
Self.”

By her own admission,
this New Age fatuity has
helped her “get rid of mis-
trust, self-doubt, and MJS-
PLACED-GUILT.”

The reason this monster
gets to grow her already gar-
gantuan sense of self while
incarcerated is because the
consensus in North
American psychological cir-
cles is that paraphilias (sexual
disorders) in women are
practically non-existent.

Thus Homolka is not
considered a sadist or a sexu-
af deviant, and her recidivism
is deemed unlikely. Clearly, it
is going to take some time
for perceptions to alter, but
research has begun to unveil

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sexual deviance in women,
indicating that paraphilias
might be far more prevalent
than previously thought.

Nowhere are the myths
about female pzcitisas more
robust than in family vie-
lence orthodoxy.

According to Ferrel
Christensen PAD, of the
department of philosophy at
the University of Aiberia,
there are “over a hundred

sociological surveys conduct-

ed with mathematical ran-
domness” that show systeri-
atically that “women assault
their partners as often as, or
more often than, men do.”
The fact that women are
more likely to be injured in
domestic altercations points
to differences in physical
strength between men and
women, not in culpability.

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Finally, evolutionary
insight is at hand from the
scholar Sarch Blatter Hedy.

In her book Mather
Nature: 1 history of mothers,
infants and natural selection,
Hrdy shows ihat the mater
nal instinct, which supposed-
Jy elevates women above
men, is not as natural as
mother’s milk.

In primate species, moth-
ers are known to reward
males who kill their young
by soliciting copulations with

lent acts

them, And there are many
conditions ia the wild
“under whick mothers aban-
don and cannibalize the
young.”

Hy like me, you are not
fond of extrapolating from
mice to men. then Hrdy sup-
plies human parallels of “sex-
selective infanticide in several
of the world’s culturcs.”

Here, as in the Palestinian
territory, worn are willing
participants.

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