http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090807/ap_on_re_us/us_wrong_way_crash_women_drinkers
“Our society has taught us that women have an extra burden to be the perfect mothers and perfect wives and perfect daughters and perfect everything,” Levounis said. “They tend to go to great lengths to keep everything intact from an external viewpoint while internally, they are in ruins.”
In the current recession, women’s incomes have become more important because so many men have lost their jobs, experts say. Men are helping out more at home, but working mothers still have the bulk of the child rearing responsibilities.
“Because of that, they have a bigger burden then most men do,” said clinical psychologist Carol Goldman. “We have to look at the pressures on women these days. They have to be the supermom.”
And just becoming a parent doesn’t mean people will stop using drugs or alcohol, Ducharme said: “If you have a real addictive personality, just having a child isn’t going to make the difference.”
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I’m sorry but this sounds like a load of victimhood crap. Do we attempt to justify why images of men dominate the DUI landscape because of their “gender role” burdens? Nope..we generally depict them as morons incapable of rational thought when they get behind the wheel.
Are these supposed experts using femininity as a crutch in this instance to promote compassionate double standards for female offenders? So NOW they need to dilligantly look into the pressures of female alcoholics…..all the while…men’s suicide rate is sky high compared to women….do we attest that to…a “bigger burden” too? *rolleyes*
I’d like to think that if you get behind the wheel while intoxicated you are a moron regardless of gender.
/end rant
OK lipgloss I agree to a degree….when you see couple decades worth of demonizing the act of DUI mostly by men hence…
“There’s the impression out there that drunk driving is strictly a male issue, and it is certainly not the case,”
does not mean we need to suddenly need to now humanize it simply because women are on the rise as offenders. Sorry but still sounds like an excuse to justify the external locus of control mentality. Nobody forces them to put the bottle into their mouths…why even use the gender role as talking point if not to bridge compassion when it was never there to begin with for male offenders? Sorry but the double standard is blatantly obvious.
