{"id":203,"date":"2006-12-14T12:08:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T10:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2008-05-22T12:07:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T10:07:23","slug":"violenta-impotriva-femeilor-ca-divertisment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Noul “Spintecator”: violenta (impotriva femeilor) ca divertisment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cand e vorba de crime impotriva femeilor, se pare ca desi suntem in 2006 nu s-au schimbat prea multe de acum 30 (sau 100) de ani. Politia, presa, si majoritatea publicului nu gasesc nimic ciudat in a dezumaniza victimele si a trata violenta ca divertisment, iar crimele nu sunt adresate si rezolvate mai eficient. Se stie ca primul mars “Reclaim the Night”<\/a> din Anglia s-a organizat in 1977 ca protest fata de o serie de omoruri cunoscute ca “Yorshire Ripper<\/a> Murders”, si in special fata de faptul ca politia nu facea destul pentru siguranta femeilor si tinea sa deosebeasca “prostituatele” de “victime inocente”<\/a>. Acum ca a aparut o situatie similara<\/a> si 5 femei au fost deja omorate in Ipswich, Suffolk, MB, femeile sunt din nou indemnate sa nu iasa seara pe strazi. Este singura “solutie” si masura preventiva oferita de politie pe moment. In acelasi timp, felul in care se vorbeste despre victime (in principal ca “fete” si “prostituate”), sau detalii despre cat de “dezbracate” erau cand au fost gasite si atentia cu tente pozitive care i se da criminalului nu face decat sa dezumanizeze victimele si sa glorifice violenta.<\/p>\n

Citand-o pe Twisty de la I Blame the Patriarchy<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“Ipswich spree killer: obviously dominated by women”<\/a><\/p>\n

Ipswich\u2019s murdering psycho has been so obligingly villainous, the media have promoted him, in quaint British tradition, to \u2018Ripper\u2019 status. Men murder women all the time (about 11 times a day in the US alone), but \u2018Ripper\u2019 is the pet name reserved for a special class of male murderer who, in the popular imagination, is particularly evil, brilliant, fascinating, ruthless, predatory, depraved, cop-taunting, and of course, hooker-hating. He also has a grippingly seedy life history (\u201da loner who never fit in\u201d), one that tabloid pop psychologists can modify into a reassuring, explanatory \u2018motive\u2019, or, even better, into a pyschokiller narrative revealing to a prurient public explicit, lingerie-ripping details of woman-hating violence.*<\/p>\n

In a departure from Rippers past, the Ipswich killer doesn\u2019t mutilate. He wins the exalted \u2018Ripper\u2019 crown in part because of the stunning dispatch with which he \u2018works\u2019 \u2014 he is, it is noted unfailingly, and with a sangfroidesque blend of awe and admiration, the fastest serial killer in British history \u2014 but mostly because all his victims appear to have been female sex workers, an important prerequisite for Ripperdom.<\/p>\n

The Ipswich killer\u2019s upgrade from random violent schlub to a mythic personage capable of waging \u201ca campaign\u201d means a concomitant downgrade for his victims. These people are demoted instantly from human women to \u2018prostitutes,\u2019 from \u2018prostitutes\u2019 ** to \u2018vice girls\u2019. From there it\u2019s just a short hop to \u2018heroin addicts\u2019 and finally, to the lowest form of life imaginable, \u2019single mothers.\u2019 Their first names are always used as if they were children. Tabloids, as Guardian columnist Joan Smith<\/a> notes with dismay [in her article “Prostitutes deserve as much sympathy as any murder victim”], even allude to their hair color (\u201cblonde Gemma<\/a>\u201d). It\u2019s as though they were hotties in Hustler rather than murdered women; no report omits to describe the women\u2019s corpses as \u2018naked\u2019 or \u2018having been stripped.\u2019<\/p>\n

Why celebrate the murderer and dehumanize the victims as fetish objects? Because the public is enamored of the delusion that only nutcase criminal masterminds hate women enough to murder them, and that prostitutes more or less have it coming to them.
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\n* The Sun\u2019s \u2018top criminal psychologist\u2019 speculates<\/a> that \u201cthe maniac [has a] history of being dominated by women.\u201d Funny how every single woman on the planet has a history of being dominated by men, yet the world remains puzzlingly bereft of crazed chicks rampaging around on tabloid-quality murder sprees.<\/em><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dar de ce ne-ar surprinde ca acestui criminal i se gasesc deja “circumstante atenuante”? Jack the Ripper este considerat un subiect fascinant, despre felul in care a mutilat si omorat femei se vorbeste cu mult interes si un minim de compasiune – mai ales ca si atunci victimele erau prostituate! “The Yorkshire Ripper”, care a omorat cel putin 13 femei, a fost lasat<\/a> de curand sa viziteze locul unde se afla cenusa tatalui sau.<\/p>\n

Iar in presa romaneasca stirea despre omorurile recente poate fi gasita prezentata de parca ar fi vorba de o noua ecranizare a istoriei lui Jack the Ripper: “Jack Spintecatorul s-a intors: Dupa 118 ani, prostituatele britanice sunt in pericol din nou”<\/a> (Ziua, 12 decembrie 2006) – un articol pe care InfoPortal.ro (“Indexul stirilor din Romania”) il indexeaza<\/a> la sectiunea de “Divertisment”!<\/p>\n

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Zilele acestea se incearca pregatirea<\/a> unui Reclaim the Night<\/em> ca raspuns la situatia din Ipswich.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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