The main difference I would see is how we discourage boys from expressing their emotional pain in the way we allow girls to. So when they get that wall around themselves that keeps them from expressing their needs I think it also keeps them from expressing their empathy for other people's needs. Invariably, the social work professor and counselor says, the absence of empathy is seen in many who have been convicted of rape, abuse and other deviant behaviors. No one is arguing that there isn't a leap from chauvinistic and anti-social behavior to abduction and other issues. But it is disturbing that there is already a framework for the physical domination of women by men and it is only changing incrementally over decades of discussion.
People do cross over the line from being merely disturbed to demented.
Some people are sociopaths or psychopaths for reasons that psychiatrists and criminal justice experts can't understand. Whatever the case, the anxiety building over the mystery of Jill Behrman's disappearance is like a community illness. Of course, we don't know. It seems so unfair to say to women you can't go out riding now. But there aren't any safe and sure answers.