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Reason
July 2002
Cathy Young |
License to Kill Men and women, crime and punishment.   |
ifeminists
March 4, 2003
Glenn Sacks |
In Defense of David Harris What did David Harris do to deserve his cruel fate? He had an affair. It goes without saying that were the genders reversed nobody would be talking about infidelity as a justification for murder. |
ifeminists
September 29, 2004
Glenn Sacks |
'Fatal Fathers' Myth Promoted in Wake of Peterson, Hacking Cases The wife of a murdered husband is far less likely to be considered a serious suspect than the husband of a murdered wife. And even when women are suspected, they are much more likely to be seen as having acted in self-defense. |
ifeminists
February 7, 2007
McCormick & Sacks |
Suppose Roles Had Been Reversed in Clara Harris Case Police squad cars all across America bear the slogan, "There's no excuse for domestic violence." Yet there is one situation in which the media and the public seem to feel that domestic violence is sometimes excusable -- when the perpetrator is a woman, and the victim is a man. |
ifeminists
September 28, 2005
Carey Roberts |
Women Still Unequal Before The Law 85 years after passage of the 19th Amendment, recent cases reveal a sad truth: some women are not yet ready to assume the duties and obligations that necessarily accompanied their hard-won legal rights. |
ifeminists
May 26, 2004
Carey Roberts |
Female Virtue Takes a Beating at Abu Ghraib This time around, the ladies couldn't blame their actions on the male power structure. Here was female barbarism and debauchery, all on full-frontal display in the newspapers. |
ifeminists
July 21, 2004
Carey Roberts |
Martha Stewart Plays the Chivalry Card Studies have repeatedly found that when men and women commit the identical crime, women are less likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated. |
ifeminists
June 14, 2007
Carey Roberts |
Women Above the Law? In a civilized society that prides itself on rule of law, rights go hand in hand with responsibilities. Does anyone believe that women should be exempt from that time-honored principle? |
Salon.com
March 13, 2002
Suzanne O'Malley |
Worst-case scenario I knew it was coming, but it's still hard to accept: In Texas, mental illness is not a defense to murder... |
Salon.com
March 13, 2002
Janelle Brown |
Swift injustice Anger and frustration dominate reactions to the quick guilty verdict in the murder trial of Andrea Yates... |
ifeminists
September 23, 2003
Glenn Sacks |
Convicted Murderess Can Get Custody but Decent Fathers Can't Clara Harris, a Texas woman who was convicted of murdering her husband in March, was just granted joint custody of her twin five year-old boys. The ruling validates what fathers' and children's advocates have been saying for years -- when it comes to children, many courts believe that mothers can do no wrong. |
Salon.com
March 14, 2000
Foote Sweeney & Smith |
Sisterhood is powerless How feminism has made men's lives safer -- and women's more dangerous. |
ifeminists
August 2, 2006
Tony Zizza |
Wrong Verdict in Yates Case The verdict that came down in the new Andrea Yates murder trial of "not guilty by reason of insanity" is absolutely insane. She needs to spend the rest of her life in prison for drowning not one child, or two, or three, or four, but five children. |
ifeminists
January 18, 2006
Carey Roberts |
Double-Standard Treatment for Child Abusers When a man commits child abuse, it seems the story is all over the front page. When the perpetrator is a woman, the story is relegated to the bottom of page C9. As long as we tolerate this gender double-standard, the problem will fester and grow. |
Salon.com
March 14, 2002
Douglas Cruickshank |
The Andrea Yates verdict is insane A mentally ill mother is guilty of little more than extraordinary need and dangerous fragility, and both are beyond her control... |
ifeminists
December 5, 2007
Wendy McElroy |
The Roots of Individualist Feminism in 19th-Century America To order to appreciate modern feminism, one must explore the historical origins of the feminist movement. |
ifeminists
May 11, 2008
Wendy McElroy |
A Feminist Defense of Men's Rights Women are individuals and anything that weakens individual rights based on a shared humanity harms women as much as men. |
ifeminists
April 30, 2007
Stephen Baskerville |
Duke Case Demonstrates Feminist "Justice" Decades of pursuing illusory, subjective, and politically defined "justice" have left Americans so incapable of distinguishing guilt from innocence that we are now inured to the most open injustice. |
