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Just recently there was a media frenzy in Japan over a young woman who killed three men she met on dating sites. And there has been another case of a woman killing a man she originally met the same way.
British woman Carol Kemp became involved with a man she met on a dating site, then knifed him to death when he tried to end the relationship.
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Fraudsters continue to fleece Australians looking for love on online dating sites. Queenslanders are a favourite target of these unscrupulous people:
The $16 million a year sent to phony "suitors" in Nigeria and Ghana by vulnerable Queenslanders represents a fifth of all the money extorted from Australian romance scam victims, a state cyber crime fighter has claimed. This law enforcement official believes that the problem is so bad that the cash remittance industry itself should intervene to address the problem: "Seventy per cent of all the money going to Nigeria is romance-fraud related and we're talking millions of dollars." That is a staggering figure. At the risk of sounding unsympathetic, it makes you wonder how so many people could be so gullible, particularly since there has been so much media coverage of this criminal practice. I suppose it just goes to show just how vulnerable people can be when they are lonely and looking for love. These days there is so much talk about the need for equality between the sexes. The notion of sameness -- while not necessarily the same thing -- is often promoted strongly as well.
You often hear this in relation to debates about economic inequality. For example, feminists bemoan the lack of female CEOs, saying that women can be just as tough, ambitious and decisive as men. Much of this is laudable, of course. It's also true, because there are many aspects of male and female psychology that hardly differ at all. But it can cause a lot of confusion and frustration as well -- particularly in intimate relationships. This is because whether we like it or not, men and women are also very different in so many ways -- often ones that are unchangeable. Take the issue of a potential partner's relative height. Both men and women prefer it if the man is taller than the woman. And it seems that this requirement is more important for women than it is for men. Here's an interesting and comprehensive post on this particular phenomenon. |
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