Women and Violence
Can someone tell me why people are shocked and angry when a woman police officer or soldier is killed, but when a woman is killed by her son or former boyfriend (both reported in The Times on Feb. 28) there is no similar emotional reaction?
The articles that followed the death of the Los Angeles woman police officer implied that since more women are becoming police officers, their lives are now at risk. In the last few days, The Times reported on six women in the Southland killed by men they knew. It seems to me, all women’s lives are at risk just because they are women living in a society with violent men.
JOAN PLOTIN
Van Nuys
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