Yes, it probably explains why MOST of the great chefs are male…

Its sad that this is taken seriously. Its sad that people are this incredibly stupid. To keep from crying, sometimes all one can do is laugh. After all, I have 4 female roommates (one of whom has a girlfriend who frequently visits). Clearly being in such grave risk, all I can do is resort to humor to try to settle down the extreme fear I am in from all these special poisining skills in my home.

I mean people listen to Farrell and public policies are implemented based on what he saids…and then he’s going around claiming that ‘women have special poisoning skills’ that can kill men undetected, thus the numbers of men killed by women is really higher then we think…so I guess I’m saying are government officials going to be making changes in public programs based on this? Such as reallocating money for male victims of these ‘undetected poisoning’…although what money would do for them at this point I can’t say…anyway I think I made my point, that much silliness comes from supposedly the well-educated class…

Maybe I’m overgeneralizing from a few hundred fictional mystery stories, but women can kill men and make it look like natural causes, like an accident, like self-defense, like an unsolvable killing, or find a patsy to take the rap.

“Maybe”??!?

Also, what is it about men that means they *can’t* make murder look like natural causes? From what I’ve seen on the news, they have been known to try just those tactics you listed above.

And yes, I’m fairly sure that when a man is murdered, the most likely suspects are considered to be those closest to him, which often would include the wife and/or partner. Why would you assume this wouldn’t be so?

Of course, by “true”, I mean seems like it might as well be. If you disagree, prove to me by citing examples of professional hitmen who are not deadly but beautiful Asian women.

Of course, by “professional hitmen” I mean the really good ones who never get caught or talk about their profession. Can you show me one example of a completely secret and never revealed (even post death) assassian who is not a deadly but beautiful Asian women? If not, you really have no right to critique my position.

Of course, I’m not talking about deaths attirbuted to the previously mentioned Aliens from outer space. You’ll note that aa did not dispute my claim that beings from other worlds are responsible for most deaths, unexplained or otherwise, because they have technology we humans cannot detect. I’d like to see him try to disprove that hypothesis.

I wonder if the deadly but beautiful Asian women are actually from another planet? Why, its too perfect not to be true! Just try and refute me.

I think perhaps Glenn and Farrell have deeper problems with women (with this whole idea of special poisoning skills, unsolved murders being attributed to women , we are more devious, etc., etc.,)…

I recently observed Farrell on Booknotes and it was interesting to see how controlling of people he is, as he made the entire audience get up and change their seats so he could conduct a raised hand survey…I never saw anyone do that before as most of the other authors just talk about their book and then conduct a question and answer session afterwards. It gave some real insight into the man seeing how he couldn’t resist trying to control a whole group of people who were just too polite to refuse to listen to him…

Anyway Farrell also claimed during that book review that women were primarily responsible for gang violence in California (even though most gang members are young men) because single mothers trying to raise boys w/o fathers forced them to look for male mentors and they gravitate into the streets hunting for them, thus the formation of gangs…

Yet in spite of everything bad he said about women, during the question and answer period many of the questioners were women who fluttered all over Farrell like hens over a barnyard rooster…

So I guess that saids something about deeper problems for women as well…

This mystery novel garbage is just silly. What is the basis for this “women are good at hiding murders” theory? Anything? Just something you’ve heard? Just something that sounds like it could be true? That’s not proof. Its called talking out of your ass.

[Whoops! Thanks for pointing that out; I’ve corrected the typo. –Amp]

Here in the UK, MRA’s arguments that domestic violence is ‘equal’ have long been rebutted with ‘count the bodies’ (c. 100 women a year, c. 27 men a year of whom nearly half are killed by male partners).

A couple of years ago they strated responding with the ’special poisoning skills’ line which is clearly barking mad - although their other defence does have some validity - namely that women sometimes get someone else to kill their husband / boyfriend for them. Even taking this into account, however, doesn’t make it equal.

Not saying that you should, but I’m thinking they could arrive at this figure by claiming that women can claim that a murder was in self-defense.

Say, I’ve got a theory. I suggest that aliens are here on Earth. Aliens are well known for their ability to kill with great efficency and stealth. Therefore, its quite likely that all unsolved homocides and all accidental deaths and some death by disease are actually murders committed by aliens. As a result even if the Aliens are only responsible for a small percentage of these deaths, they are guilty of thousands of murders every year in the United States. Yet our government still does nothing to counter the Alien threat.