Talk:Laurie Dann

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It seems that this article may be the vulnerable to point of view editing suggesting that Dann's actions were gender-based (directed against men). I have just sourced this article and in doing so have removed evidence which (erroneously) suggests that only men and boys were targetted. As well as information about a 'note' that was misquoted and ascribed to the wrong attempted poisoning in an apparent attempt to strengthen the claim to gender-based violence. Since I can't find any reliable source that views this as an example of gender-based violence, it seems like a case WP:SYNT so let's be careful about this article and be sure to source any information we add! --Slp1 01:19, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

I can't find any reference to girls or women being attacked by Dann. Can you provide references? As far as I can tell, all of her victims were male, and only men appeared to be targeted. There has been public discussion about this being gender-based (most notably Warren Farrell's book) indicating that it was a sex based attack. Thoughts? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.114.255.99 (talk • contribs) 21:54, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem. The place to start would be the contemporaneous newspaper articles cited in the article. Just follow the links. They make clear that two girls (named) were shot (one very seriously). Dann also sent poisoned drinks to 6 families (hard to be gender-specific there!) and a girl was poisoned as a result. She also set fire to a house where she babysat in which a mother and her two kids were in the house.

Her victims were certainly not all male. And I gather from reading the Amazon reviews of Farrell's book that others have criticized him on Dann saying that he was "sloppy with the facts" and that "he makes wild charges and yet doesn't get close to the facts". See for yourself at [1]. I gotta say that having gone back to the extensive newspaper reports of the time I agree with the criticism! Slp1 22:54, 15 February 2007 (UTC)