I've been going through this article about siblicide (killing of one's sibling) today and found some interesting numbers in the section talking about gender as a factor.
Siblicide: The psychology of sibling homicide.
Feminists love to explain the supposed much higher rate of criminality, violence and aggresiveness in men as there being something fundamentally wrong and violent with men, whether due to biology or because of "socialization", but the way the homicide rate tanks going from brother-on-brother murder to brother-on-sister one heavily implies that male nature alone can't explain it, at least the nature of the brother doing the killing. If those men are just naturally murderers, why do they kill their brothers so much more than killing their sisters?
For all the anti-male bullshit they came up with as the original TERFs, second-wave feminists had a collective stopped clock moment in downplaying any apparent mental differences between the genders and focusing solely on the physical ones, because in this particular case, a 2:1 kill ratio is exactly what I'd imagine if you have two people who have an antagonistic relationship and live in a complicated situation with both of them being equally aggressive and likely to want to kill the other, but one of them has a serious physical advantage and both have access to weapons.
Of course, if they tried to explain the differences in the same-sex siblicides, they'd probably go back to blaming inherently violent male nature or something
. They wouldn't even think of how the view of men as more disposable might play a role there, and how those brothers, growing up in a world where it is more acceptable for men to be subjected to violence than women, would be much more willing since childhood to get physical with their brothers than they would ever dare to with their sisters, with those fratricides the eventual result of decades of that.
Siblicide: The psychology of sibling homicide.
The last study is a bit of an outlier, but the two newer and probably bigger ones are very interesting. Obviously, brothers killing brothers is by far the most common, overwhelmingly most common dyad, while sisters killing sisters is the least common one. However, it's the mixed-gender ones that surprised me. The gaps between those two dyads are much smaller than the general gender gap in homicide. At least according to official statistics, which we all know aren't too reliable even for homicides, nevermind other crimes, at least according to those men commit some 90% of homicides or so. Keeping that in mind, the fact that according to the quoted studies, The ratio of brother-on-sister and sister-on-brother siblicides is about 2:1 is pretty crazy.
Feminists love to explain the supposed much higher rate of criminality, violence and aggresiveness in men as there being something fundamentally wrong and violent with men, whether due to biology or because of "socialization", but the way the homicide rate tanks going from brother-on-brother murder to brother-on-sister one heavily implies that male nature alone can't explain it, at least the nature of the brother doing the killing. If those men are just naturally murderers, why do they kill their brothers so much more than killing their sisters?
For all the anti-male bullshit they came up with as the original TERFs, second-wave feminists had a collective stopped clock moment in downplaying any apparent mental differences between the genders and focusing solely on the physical ones, because in this particular case, a 2:1 kill ratio is exactly what I'd imagine if you have two people who have an antagonistic relationship and live in a complicated situation with both of them being equally aggressive and likely to want to kill the other, but one of them has a serious physical advantage and both have access to weapons.
Of course, if they tried to explain the differences in the same-sex siblicides, they'd probably go back to blaming inherently violent male nature or something
. They wouldn't even think of how the view of men as more disposable might play a role there, and how those brothers, growing up in a world where it is more acceptable for men to be subjected to violence than women, would be much more willing since childhood to get physical with their brothers than they would ever dare to with their sisters, with those fratricides the eventual result of decades of that.
