• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That sounds like a good idea until you remember that women are just as capable as men of being lying psychopaths.

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      1 year ago

      That now makes me wonder what the distribution of psychopathy is over sex.

      I assume they’re independent and we’d have a “50:50” distribution.

      Not interested enough to actually go and find out though.

        • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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          1 year ago

          TYVM!

          Until the 2000s, most research on psychopathy used male participants, assuming that the findings would transfer to females.

          Clinicians generally don’t expect females to be psychopaths, so they might [dis]miss key signs.

          Figures.

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          From what I read psychopaths may manifest differently in women so a lot of them may go undiagnosed

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            1 year ago

            Sir, your wife is hysterical. As your doctor I prescribe medical vaginal stimulation.

            We’ve had a long history of just dismissing problems women suffer.

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              1 year ago

              And with psychiatry it’s really easy to dismiss mental illness as moral or character failings. I always thought I was a lazy piece of shit but I learned I have clinical depression and ADD.

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                Hey! One can have clinic depression and ADHD and also be a lazy piece of shit. Don’t tell me what I can’t be!

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      1 year ago

      Just give them guns. I mean, guns are primitive by today’s measure to manufacture. A sufficient in scale production would make them cheap.

      Though arming everybody in India would mean at least one gun for every teen and adult in 1.4bln population, and also ammo.