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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Boredness and Most Wanted Criminals


Bordeness can make you do very strange things, like looking up all the international arrest warrants on the Interpol website.... ( I was VERY bored, ok? )
Interestingly, there is just a minimal percentage of women listed on this page, the main part of them related to abduction of minors from family; but also some few related to fraud or arms trade or money laundering . I wonder whether this confirms my ( feminist?) theories about women being less violent than men etc. or whether this fact radicates in some way in society itself... I'm refering to girls still being educated to be obedient and behaving and so on ( in order to get a good husband :-P ), in this way forming a mental 'barrier" which makes women less susceptible to behave in a violent way or to pass social limits which would leave her in an 'outcast' position......it's maybe a little bit far-fetched, but completely personal theory of mine.

On the other hand, there are some very interesting and multi-faceted women among criminals, like Leila Khaled, a Radical Palestine Activist who was reportedly the first female hijacker ( an TWA flight from Rome to Athens in 1969 ) and is now an active member of the Palestinian National Council.
Or Phoolan Devi, who became famous as 'Bandit Queen' in 1980's India and has turned into some sort of legend in her native country, as she is believed to have taken revenge on a group of men from her village who formerly raped her, and to have given money --in a Robin Hood sort of way--to the poor and homeless after the raids she did with her 'gang' ( --no guarantee for objectivity given on this one; S.K. )...
So, you see, even though there might be as much potential vileness and violence among the 'fair sex' as among their male equivalents, in my opinion it is at least more enjoyable to take a look at the histories of those women who defied society and rules.

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