David Walliams's stalker sectioned...
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:38 pm
Following a four year campaign of harrassment this woman has been sectioned. She apparently bombared him with emails, hung around outside his house, sneaked into studios where he was working and said she had to 'have him at any cost'. The judge said it was 'a sad case not a bad case', and sectioned her under the Mental Health Act this week.
What interests me is why it would be seen as so much worse if the gender roles were reversed. If it was a man stalking a famous woman for four years he would be condemned, regarded as a fruitcake, and seen as someone deserving of hatred. I'm not trying to say that he wouldn't deserve all of those things, it just interests me how women doing the same thing aren't viewed as being equally as bad.
One theory might be that a man being stalked by a women is in little danger, unless she is a real bunny-boiler, whereas a women being stalked by a man is in much greater potential danger - on account of men being physically stronger than women. The man could fight off a female attacker - not so easy the other way around. What are people's views on why a women doing this to a man is not viewed anywhere nearly as badly as when a man does it to a woman?
What interests me is why it would be seen as so much worse if the gender roles were reversed. If it was a man stalking a famous woman for four years he would be condemned, regarded as a fruitcake, and seen as someone deserving of hatred. I'm not trying to say that he wouldn't deserve all of those things, it just interests me how women doing the same thing aren't viewed as being equally as bad.
One theory might be that a man being stalked by a women is in little danger, unless she is a real bunny-boiler, whereas a women being stalked by a man is in much greater potential danger - on account of men being physically stronger than women. The man could fight off a female attacker - not so easy the other way around. What are people's views on why a women doing this to a man is not viewed anywhere nearly as badly as when a man does it to a woman?