In the latest school shootings seems like it is always men that do this?

Question

Seems we never hear of women ever doing this
sort of thing school violence
And could it be more men are prone to violence and
testosterone plays a part in this?
Sure there are women that kill their husbands because
of abusive marriage
but never a woman in school shootings and look at other
schools around the world and it has been all men
and I wonder why?

Answer 1

Maybe these guys need to cry more and get it out like us chicks do, huh?

Answer 2

Because men seem to be more likely to become violent. It could be the testosterone element.

It's been a number of years ago but a woman did enter a school in the Chicago area and I think shot a teacher. It was a random thing and the woman was mental ill.

Answer 3

"Because of abusive marriage?" Is this the only thing that women do wrong, and does this apply 100 per cent of the time?

Sometimes women are abusive in marriages. And women are prone to pull of more sneaky sorts of crimes, while still being considered to not have any sort of dishonesty or criminal gene.

When women commit wrongs, even molesting children, it's usually just laughed off.

Answer 4

In fact, there have been female school shooters.

* Brenda Spencer (16 years old) in 1979 in San Diego. (A song called "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats was written about this incident. It was covered by Tori Amos in 2001 in her album "Strange Little Girls." It has been heard in episodes of TV shows "The West Wing" and "House.")
*Laurie Wasserman Dann (30 years old) in 1988 in Illinois.
*Jillian Robbins (age 19) in 1996 at Penn State.
*Lawanda Jackson (age 19) in St. Louis in 1993.
*Elizabeth Bush (age 14) in Williamsport, PA, in 2001.

A non-shooting incident in Georgia in 2004 involved two 13-year-old girls who baked a cake full of bleach, clay, and a prescription drug & served it to their classmates, inducing illness

So it isn't entirely accurate that it's always men/boys doing this sort of thing.

I'm sure that the way boys and girls are socialized plays a role in the discrepancy. However, it seems to me that girls are openly expressing themselves with anger and physical violence more often in recent years than was true in the past.

One interesting (to me) theory about why more boys/men are violent than girls/women rests on the idea that females are discriminated against in receiving training in violent thinking! Researcher Lonnie Athens has a theory he calls "violentization," a 4-stage experiential process that, according to the theory, all people who ultimately behave violently must go through. An important player in the process is the teacher/coach who teaches the subject the basics of violent behavior and thinking. Athens suggests that these teachers and coaches are less likely to choose females as trainees. Maybe our relatively small size compared to boys and men makes females seem less capable of carrying out a violent incident successfully, trained or not. Or maybe they just don't like us--thankfully!

(This is not to suggest that the trainer is consciously and deliberately teaching the trainee to be violent; rather, s/he is modeling, encouraging, and inciting anger & violence in various ways. And at a certain point, the individual must begin to act on his or her own.)

I think the trouble with the testosterone theory is that it gives the shooters a "pass." This links to the "he just snapped" theory. In fact, most research I've read discounts the idea that someone (other than someone with severe and diagnosable mental illness) "just snaps." Instead, there is a process of moving closer and closer to violence step by step. ("Violentization" is one theory of what the process is.) At many points along the way, the person can choose a different path but doesn't--even if testosterone IS coursing through his body.

From the point of view of those around the violent person, it may look like something occurred suddenly; but, in fact, within that person, it is neither spontaneous nor uncontrollable.

You say that it "seems we never hear of women doing this sort of thing" so we might wonder if the male-dominated media is just not as interested....

Lots more research and ideas are responsive to your question but there's not enough space in this box to cover it all. Great question, though, because our knee-jerk notions of why something is or isn't often play into our inability to solve problems.

Answer 5

i think of bonny parker, ma barker, the manson girls, the nazi female overn attentees, russian machine gunner who were excellent gunners, an figher piolent , joan of arc, how many to you want. mary dickenson in colonial days who killed dozens of indian warrriors single handled. my god there ar so many. can women kill, you betcha. the lady who drowned all her kids a couple of years ago. who was brunhilde? yes, in war and piece women have killed many in multitiple murdes. stalkng ? waht abot the recent nutjob astronaut. i reacall awomanwho fried her baby on a stop top skillet in forth worth in 1971 reported in he star telegraphm. i am a biocybrog ex journalist and keep this up all day. imagine how man women kill men and their children because --- becaise== upi te;; is/ why. lately the preacher's wife hat could only think to shot gun jhim. jhe nurse on trial for maybe killing he husband. she is cute ad she is suppose togo free. who knows. face it, human kill each other and it can only grow unless we keep hem all stone. the korean boy, he was heartbrokenby snobby girld so he kinda got hurtand his self esteem plummented. he went whacko like others over centuries. millions and milions of he centruries. what isdiffenertn. new high tech guns and walkie talkies. more effiecient killers with the same old braikns. it is not a gender thing most ofhe time. people have feelings and are nolt quiflied to do psyco analysis (if any odyis.). bs bs sob

Answer 6

We are a society that sends signals to male children that aggression is good as a means to dominate/manipulate. The use of toy guns is "cute" or the boys are being "grown up." Certainly, the ones who perpetrate these crimes are very disturbed, but how many men use firearms to threaten others or physically assault girlfriends/wives. The signals are for unbridled agression in one situation, but then must be controlled as they mature.

Answer 7

Men are meant to be tough so when they have issues emotionally it back builds and they push it down into their gut until it explodes outward at those around them.

Woman are more naturally emotional and vent and cry along the way when they have emotional problems. Woman tend to deal with problems up front and overcome them faster than men.

Answer 8

I think it's because when girls get stressed about something they talk about it with their friends or parents, and they are more wiliing to open up. Guys keep their feelings in them and when they eventually explode, they have a gun in their hand and angry thoughts in their head. People like that should either become more willing to open up, write their feelings down like in a journal, or listen to aggressive music(it calms me down).

Answer 9

Mankind or should i say person kind is starting to take matters in their own hands. the bible says in the last days that the love of the greater number would cool off.

Answer 10

Testosterone, the male sex hormone, makes people more aggressive.