You can find them all over the place:
Police at Linden have their work cut out as they are once again faced with the suspected murder of another young woman.
Twenty-three-year-old Monalisa Rigby’s body was found in a creek a short distance away from her Lower Kara Kara/Speightland home. And the police subsequently arrested a man the young woman had been dating. […]
According to persons on the scene, Rigby was found with her face and feet down in the water, but her bottom was up. Several persons said there were black and blue areas on her body. They said her body was found between some branches in the water and her cell phone was retrieved from the water. A rope with blood and her slippers were also found nearby. The woman’s pants and underwear were both halfway down her legs and her top had been torn. […]
Rigby was the second young woman to have died under suspicious circumstances and on Friday morning, another young woman was hospitalized nursing stab wounds about her body after a man entered her Block 22 home and attempted to rape her.
Just last Saturday, the body of 25-year-old Melissa Anthony was found in a pool of blood in her Retrieve home. Her husband, Shane Anthony, a teacher at the Mackenzie High School and an elder in the Linden Jehovah’s Witness church was held and was charged on Friday last. He is to appear in court on Tuesday.
Women have nothing to fear from men in our country. Absolutely nothing. They should stop being so whiny and scared every time someone looks cross-eyed at them, doncha think?
Not.
Are you referring to anyone in particular?
Take it however you wish.
Maybe its directed at you, if you have the attitude that women need to toughen up when they receive threats of violence.
Not even a little bit.
So is it Kos’s fault that this is the way our culture is? Are you blaming him for human nature?
This bizarre sideways insinuation is pointless and juvenile.
Face it, what you write DOESN’T MATTER MUCH.
VERY FEW PEOPLE CARE ABOUT YOUR OPINIONS.
I happen to be a daily reader of booman and Kos, but YOU are forcing ME to choose sides. Bad move.
You’re seriously overplaying your hand here.
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What are you talking about? StevenD has already spoken his last word on the subject of Kos.
I happen to be a daily reader of booman and Kos, but YOU are forcing ME to choose sides. Bad move.
I bet a bunch of people will be fucking heartbroken, too.
So is it Kos’s fault that this is the way our culture is?
To the extent that Kos is a participant in the way our culture is, yes.
You’re seriously overplaying your hand here.
Actually, you are. The so-called B-list blogs are full of people who got tired of the constant cries of “shut the fuck up” that go along with refusing to toe the official line at dKos. It’s practically a movement of its own at this point. If you think you’re going to get much sympathy, never mind cooperation, when you track that shit outside of Markos’ happy little green zone, you’re smoking crack. We’re done shutting the fuck up.
Face it, what you write DOESN’T MATTER MUCH.
VERY FEW PEOPLE CARE ABOUT YOUR OPINIONS.
Maybe. Those opinions seem to have your full attention, troll.
Women have nothing to fear from men in our country.
Pretty sure the story is from Guyana.
Not to say that women don’t have anything to fear from men in America, too. Just sayin’.
It is and has always been frightening to be a woman. How many times do we hear about little girls or grown women being raped, killed and dumped somewhere like so much trash.
This is why I refuse to watch any TV show or movie that uses violence against women as entertainment. I loathe the growth of crime shows and CSI type shows that seem to revel in the details.
No matter how confident or strong she is, there is not a woman alive who feels completely at ease walking alone at night….let alone having received horrific personal attacks like Kathy Sierra has.
I refuse to watch any TV show or movie that uses violence against women as entertainment.
The story in the post is a good example. Why do they dwell on the victim’s pants and underwear being pulled down? It’s rape porn.
You should read Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punishment. In it he discribes the importance of the public spectacle of punishment. Basicaly, it is a warning to others.
You should read Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punishment.
I have.
I think exploitive stories like this are just masturbation fodder for men who want to read rape porn disguised as news. Interestingly, I think the same audience also harbors chivalrous fantasies about riding to the rescue of poor, helpless, threatened females. Both proceed from the man’s adolescent mentality toward women, who attract, frustrate and mystify him. He deals with his feelings using fantasies in which their power over him is destroyed – either by rape/murder or by becoming their savior upon whom they are dependent for safety. By positing a world in which women are constantly under threat of rape by other men, which he (heroically) will oppose, he gets to indulge both fantasies simultaneously.
“who want to read rape porn”
Porn is consensual sex, done for monetary profit. Rape is not!
Hi Steven.
To me, the issue is not so much that men are (usually) physically stronger women, or even that patriiarchal society gives men a great deal of leeway in using violence or the treat of violence to “solve” their problems.
The problem to me is this: masculine identity is largely framed around power, specifically power-over others, and even more specifically power over women. Every time that a man feels that I, in any way, shape, or form, have challenged his authority/superiority/power over me, I risk some form of retribution. While this retribution can take the form of physical violence, it just as likely to take a social or economic one.
Fact is, I cannot disagree with a man, without having to do so very carefully. And with many men, there is no such thing as carefully enough – if you are a woman. In my job, that has not only meant taking crap from bosses (even the self-proclaimed lefty-new-age-types) that they never would have given to another male, but it also meant taking crap from subordinate men, who didn’t like a woman telling them what to do, or heaven forbid, correcting them.
It means, as part of lesbian couple, I am always watchful of the local men – aware that it might be dangerous to “piss them off” by driving too slowly (i.e. the speed limit) on our turny-twisty road that they, in their trucks, motocycles and muscle cars (or cars that they drive like muscle cars) treat as a racing strip. What if after a hard day at work, and a few beers with the boys, they need a little macho-pick-me-up? Well, there’s that woman in the little car that always holds them up when their racing home, and it’s only another woman that lives there, so you know that that means.
At the very least I worry about coming home and finding my dog, the alpacas, or the ducks dead. Just because, as women, we are easy targets. And as uppity women, we are especially “high-scoring” targets.
As an example, after buying our place, my partner and I had a disagreement with the previous owner. It was clear that he expected us to roll over, because he was threatening and we were women. We made some initial concessions, but his response was always escalation. We spent most of the first year in our home worried that he or his son (who we found out was in jail later that year for assault) would come out here and take out their frustrations on us. In the end, we gave them most of what they wanted, with only a small (but meaningful to us) concession on their part. Oh, and all of the advice we got, even from our female lawyer, was just to give in. Even the (female) court appointed mediator suggested (aside) that we make concessions based upon our fear of violent retribution.
I cannot even begin to count the cost to me, and all women, of having to constantly monitor the “dis/comfort level” of every man we interact with in order to be at least marginally “safe”.
daughter was fired from her job.
Reason.
A suburban and perhaps naive girl was asked to attend a series of training sessions in Boston. Transportation to and from this training was promised and at the last minute withdrawn leaving her to navigate the city, trains, and train schdules and procedures all on her own at the last minute. We did in fact spend a solid year in a major European city but having her go into an American city sends my red danger, danger lights into red alert. In short she failed the test and did not show up for the training which BTW was optional.
Now the next part is going to fall upon deaf and dumb politically correct ears but consider it my retirement.
Her “token” black boss, totally familiar and comfortable with all things city felt this was inexcusable. Even though there were two instances of misognyistic complaints against this supervisor he did in fact occupy the “black” checkbox in a yuppie suburban demographic.
My daughter upset by the whole incident tendered her resignation which this yuppie suburban organization graciously accepted.
My other “diversity” experience comes from my wife who works as a nurse’s aid. The cheaper hires come in the form of latinos with marginal english skills who hide in rooms and refuse to answer call lights. Once hired the management refuses to fire these people for fear of the “discrimination” lawsuit. My wife is on prescription motrin from trying to lift too many people.
My third piss me off comes from the very same daughter. By some galactic co-incidence the Army recruiters knew her brand new cell phone number. They had a conversation with her about the Army. The guy strangely knew where she was attending community college, what subjects she was taking.
Well my ensuing emails to every available military recruiter in my area. Wow, the hate mail was phenominal but they have since left her alone.
In the end life is cheap in a cheap society. Government is supposed to serve the people and therefore advance society.
This is a piece of inflammatory propaganda, nothing more, and shouldn’t get front-page treatment on any blog that I want to have anything to do with.
Might as well show buckets full of aborted fetuses or something.
Nice way to make your point. Gosh, what a surprise, women are physically weaker than men and sometimes men treat them horribly. Gee, I wasn’t aware of that! That’s because I’m Helen Fucking Keller.
This whole brou-ha-ha is NOT about violence against women, it’s about the fact that if you’re gonna stick your neck out on the internet, you’re gonna get some threats. Everybody KNOWS that and if you claim “oh gosh, little ol’ me is getting threatened by these nasty anonymous people”, well a lot of us are gonna say “SO WHAT?”
This is like moving to Los Angeles and then bitching about the traffic.