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mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 03:50 PM Jun 2014

Fox News Says Girls Are "More Likely to Have Hateful Little Minds"


File it under "great moments in Fox News chyrons": On Wednesday, forensic psychologist Brian Russell appeared on the network to discuss the strange case of the two 12-year-old girls who stabbed their friend nearly to death and then blamed an internet meme called "Slender Man" for it. Russell was there to sound a note of caution, it seems, arguing that there is no need to have some kind of mass panic over paranormal horror stories on the internet, because the girls probably had individualized motivations and were just using their enthusiasm for Slender Man as an excuse. Here is what he said:


I think this is much more probably about immature [sic], hatred, jealousy, narcissism, and probably coupled with insufficient parenting—probably what we have here are a couple morally underdeveloped, hateful, jealous, little minds with insufficient supervision and parenting. It’s probably a more run-of-the-mill attempted murder really.


That makes sense. We don't have enough information right now to know for sure what the girls' motives were, but Russell seems to be trying to prevent unnecessary panic by speculating that the "reasons" are more likely to be personal issues than the terrible influence of the internet.

However, since someone at Fox News seems confused on this, here's a clarification: Not only does the evidence show that girls are no more likely to be "mean girls" than boys are likely to be "mean boys," but juvenile arrest records show that girls are far less likely to be violent. As Melissa Dahl at Science of Us explained, only 8 percent of juveniles convicted of murder are girls

more at:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/06/05/slender_man_stabbing_fox_news_says_girls_are_more_likely_to_have_hateful.html



FFS. Elliot Rodger sends his best to the writers at faux.


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dawg

(10,610 posts)
5. Just to clarify, the psychologist didn't say that, it was the Fox News chyron that appeared ...
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 04:09 PM
Jun 2014

beneath him as he spoke.

IronLionZion

(45,256 posts)
6. One can get dizzy from so much spin
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 04:15 PM
Jun 2014

The thought of murderous 12 year old girls is deeply unsettling. But this incident probably has jack shit to do with their gender. I don't think there's a trend of psychotic young girls trying to kill each other.

Roosh even published a blog post explaining why Elliot Rodger is a feminist, and how feminism encourages hate.

Maybe next he'll publish why 12 year old girls just need access to online activities other than "slenderman" and "creepy pasta". They could order up a mail order Thai boyfriend for example.

The Lannisters send their regards.

tanyev

(42,358 posts)
8. Interesting how similar it is to the quote I've posted in a couple of the McDaniels debacle threads.
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 04:25 PM
Jun 2014

This lady is president of the Mississippi Tea Party, and I think the quote is from 2012, but it sure expresses a similar sentiment. Must be a right wing meme.

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