WOMEN MORE REVENGEFUL THAN MEN

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 282, 8 June 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

WOMEN MORE REVENGEFUL THAN MEN

Bevcng© is a retaliation fojr an injury or supposed injury received. Many causes arouse the wish for revenge. Charlotte Corday killed Marat, one of the tyrants of the French revolution. Queen Elizabeth ordered the execution of Alary Queen of Scots because the Scottish Queen had laid clajin to the ill rone of England.

Patriotism aroused Charlotte's revenge, wounded self-esteem aroused Queen Elizabeth's. Ihere is no doubt that women are more revengeful than men. A man often begins by being just as reveugetul as a woman, but in time this wears off. He forgives and forgets. Even if lie contemplated revenge, he thinks of other things too. But a woman doesn't. She feels emotions more intensely than a man. If she loves, she thinks of nothmg but tiiat leve. It is her life. A man may lore and yet go about hb work or play billiards with his friends. He can concentrate his mind on more things than one.

If a woman feels revenge, that one feeling persists to the exclusion of every other feeling. Modern woman is less inclined to revenge than her sister of former years. Sho has become a worker and has had to fight for her existence. The women, and even the men of tropical ocuntries have always !>een more revengeful than those who live in colder climates. The hot climate almost forces them to lead an indolent life, which gives them time to brood over their wrongs, iwhile the people who live in a colder climate and are always working have little time for thoughts of vengeance.