julifolo's Journal

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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