Good point; tunnel vision that comes from being a woman, I guess. Plus, it always irritates me that people can watch human suffering all day long with only a "Those things happen" and yet, when an animal is involved it brings outrage and indignation.

You're right about violence against men. If Vick would have beaten some guy half to death in a brawl, he might never have even been charged with more than a misdemeanor. I certainly doubt people would be vilifying him and I doubt he would even be off the team.

But you know, it's not only accepted as "natural" that men be the victim of crime, but that they are "naturally" inclined to be the perpetrators of it, too. It is something I have noticed (but never posted on) that when a woman is the instigator of domestic violence -- as in the murder/suicide of a mother and son up here recently -- the news talks of all the places she could have gone for help for whatever troubled her. When Brittany treats her children as toys and accessories, everyone assumes that she is "ill" because no woman could possibly be that callous. Yet when the same crime is committed by a man, everyone just shrugs and accepts it as "one of those things". It's an unfair -- and unrealistic -- distinction.