Bodily Harm

I found this reading..well awesome. I am very interested in serial killers, mass murders (there is a difference), and violence in general. This may sound a little sadistic and frankly, it's a weird thing to be interested in. Although this is true, I love the behavioral sciences and basically I love to dissect why people do what they do. Looking at how behaviors are shaped by the environment is what I am most interested in but then again I've never really looked at it from a gender perspective. Maybe the power that men feel entitled to plays a larger role that I thought. For instance, Martin Bryant was so enthralled by a sense of power that he failed to act properly. How many killers kill because of this sense of power? On the same note, how many kill women explicitly or kill because of women? There are many cases of mass murder as well as serial murder that revolve around women. Why did the Green River Killer only kill prostitutes? Why did BTK bind torture and kill his exclusively female victims? These questions are so interesting in and of themselves but they are even more interesting when trying to discern whether a sense of superiority or obsessive masculinity played a role. I think that this reading gives us a little insight into how masculinity plays a role but I would like to pursue this subject further.