The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
Katherine Dunn
Show off' was no insult in our family, but Arty had a way of turning 'sweetheart' into a thumb in the eye.
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women men society
I wanted to cry, loud and wet with the pain of love.
pain
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
movies
I had maggot brains that night and may have imagined half of it, and misunderstood the rest.
rest
What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.
work
Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
women men
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
women talent force
But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
women culture
The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.
women
She blurbed through her Moms-All-Purpose-Adjustable-List-Of-Horrors that might have happened whenever a child is out of sight.
mom purpose
She is suspicious and fearless and her progress is alarming.
progress
The whiskey is amazing to me. I wonder why I never realized that I would like it. I wonder why I never tried it before. Liking it so much is dangerous now, and so I hold it and look through it, and drink it very slowly.
wonder wonders
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
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