A Woman's Role
Following up on my recent blog about women being the primary victims of bad driving, as a mystery author I have to note (and acknowledge) that women are in fact more often than not the primary victims of pretty much all violent behavior, worldwide--not just traffic violence--whether from a major war in Afghanistan or a local domestic dispute in Topeka. And how many of such events are, or ever were, triggered by women? Granted Anne Boleyn was of dubious character, and some people died due to her machinations and manipulations. And you can come up with your own examples. But there is only one female serial killer (one!) on record, in the U.S.A. Her name was Aileen Wuornos, and she killed a series of creeps on I-95 in Florida back in the '80s who tried to pick her up. And she got executed for it. And she was completely insane, not that it matters. But this singular women killer killed creeps, mind you. Not naive housewives, or girls in bars. Was she bad? Sure. But compare her to, ...