julifolo ([info]julifolo) wrote,
@ 2009-05-12 17:34:00
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Entry tags:misogyny, rant

Angry at the presumption
This crime, as reported by the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/nyregion/09wesleyan.html

I gather the victim "knew" her killer. After (or before) a few interactions (dates?) he decided, since he wanted her, then she belonged to him. Male entitlement behavior. Since she rejected him, after a few years of (my guess) stewing over this injustice, he tracked down and killed her.

OK, I'm extrapolating from a news report that doesn't know everything and there's no way to be "sure" ... but the story happens again and again. And I'm already feeling fragile/besieged because of debates with people who are only looking for "reasonable" restriction on abortion -- as if it's perfectly OK & not sexist to have women's human rights voted on by male entitlement people, instead of trusting it to the woman & medical standards. Then there's all the advertising industry & Hollywood sexism (not to mention Focus on the Family, etc.) trying to enforce gender roles. It's getting worse. Repeating my earlier rant, 30 years ago contraception wasn't controversial. The goal is to shift the Overton Window for how women are expected to act and "choose".

Maybe there are women who stalk men & kill them if they don't cooperate -- the "femme fatale" is a Hollywood cliche. From what I've seen, in the real world the white murders get the airtime on TV news, and it's usually a white guy killing a white woman who wouldn't submit to being his property. Maybe the frustrating abortion discussions I've had makes me overly sensitized to "male entitlement behavior" but it sure feels like the trend is real.


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[info]celandineb
2009-05-12 11:22 pm UTC (link)
The white murders definitely get the airtime over murders of people of color - pretty white girls are deemed much more "sellable" than anyone else.

There is no "reasonable" restriction that can be placed on abortion without infringing on the rights a woman has to control her own body. It's not about "saving babies" - if these people wanted to preserve human life, there's a lot more they could and should be doing to preserve it after birth - it's about controlling women. And, sadly, there are quite a few women who have been co-opted into agreeing with the idea that they should not be able to make their own decisions, for whatever spurious reasons.

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Co-opted Women
[info]julifolo
2009-05-13 01:51 am UTC (link)
To someone who thinks things happen "for a reason", being born female is a pretty large sign that God might want you to be a mother. So I think part of "controlling women" is "God wants the Hierarchy" yada yada. It's a cliche with abortion clinics that anti-abortion protesters also have abortions ... so it's controlling the other women. (They have a good reason, they're asking God's forgiveness, ... but the other women, who aren't repentant, they need to be punished.)

I read in an LtE -- it was a guy, of course -- I can only remember the exact wording at the end of the sentence -- his opinion was that since pregnancy was natural (or some other viariation of "it's your biology) then "pregnancy can't be a burden". By definition, apparently. Gag.

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[info]celandineb
2009-05-13 01:57 am UTC (link)
Have you ever read Shari Tepper's book The Fresco? In it, aliens impregnate a number of men, mostly senator-types who had been vocal about being anti-abortion. Lovely...

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