Men Kill Women in the U.S. So Often that It’s Usually Not Even Newsworthy (Feminists Group)

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/07/24/lafayette_shooter_john_russell_houser_history_of_domestic_violence_and_hatred.html

"When news emerged that a middle-aged white man in Lafayette, Louisiana opened fire at a showing of the Amy Schumer vehicle Trainwreck, I immediately had this sinking feeling that the movie choice wasn't a coincidence—that this was, like the Elliot Rodger and George Sodini killings, an act of rage at women. While Trainwreck is a fluffy rom-com, it's also a popular topic of chatter in the feminist-sphere, and therefore likely to be noticed by the seething misogynists who monitor the online activities of feminists with unsettling obsessiveness.

That fear is now moving from the uneasy-feeling column to the likely-possibility column, with Dave Weigel of the Washington Post reporting that alleged shooter John Russell Houser was a rabid right-winger—he even went to one of those unranked conservative Christian law schools—who had particularly strong anger towards women for their growing independence and rights. Former talk show host Calvin Floyd had Houser on as a frequent guest, knowing that his off-the-wall opinions would generate audience interest: "The best I can recall, Rusty had an issue with feminine rights," Floyd said. "He was opposed to women having a say in anything." Houser also had a history of domestic violence.

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As my colleague Ben Mathis-Lilley noted today at Slatest, there were 14 other gun-based murder-suicides in the past week in this country, resulting in the loss of 36 lives. If you look down the list of the killings, an unmistakeable pattern pops out: "shot and killed his 37-year-old wife... shot and killed his ex-wife... shot and killed his 62-year-old wife... shot and killed his 23-year-old girlfriend..." and so on. Most of these killings involve men killing women that they were in a relationship with, had lost a relationship with, or likely wanted a relationship with, but were rejected. This last week also featured a bizarre story of a woman who not only survived being kidnapped and raped by a man but also saw her boyfriend and a random other man killed in the rapist-murderer's rampage.

Hearing that some man's entitled attitude towards women led him to kill is so common that it hardly counts as newsworthy. We don't know exactly why yet Houser shot up a theater that was showing a movie written by an unapologetic feminist, but this moment should still be a wake-up call about the problem of misogynist violence in our culture. If we're not going to talk about gun control, then let's talk about how to get fewer men to see guns as the solution to their inchoate rage at women."

[deist99]

1. Skewed

Homicide victims are very skewed toward males. From the statistics I can find 77% of all homicide victims are men. So with every 100 victims of homicide 77 are male and 13 are female.

Of course 90% of all violent crime in the world is committed by men. You can make what you will of these facts.

[Agschmid]

7. *100%-77%=23%

[JustAnotherGen]

2. And yet this gets posted at DU

I put this in my trash can after reading it - thinking - eh? Maybe there's more to the story. But this was good enough of a headline to sucker me in - as well as everyone else.


Cheating Wife Reportedly Busted While Sexting At A Baseball Game

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3. I know, maybe we'll be getting weekly Scarlet Letter reports.

We need to get our media priorities straight. Daily murders of women: meh. Adultery: legal but OMG WOMEN ARE SLUTS AMIRITE.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Did you see deist99's post above?

Showed up last November to be smug about Mike Brown and violence against women.

You can't see it 'one' post - but the few the guy has? Pretty telling when you read them all.

[Starry Messenger]

5. I gave him the boot yesterday.

I PMed Gorms to say I'd done it. I usually warn first, but the rest of his posts are all in the same vein. I missed his crap about Mike Brown, but totally not surprised. Scratch a misogynistic violence defender and you'll find a racist, I find.

I am hoping we won't have to spend the next year listening to his attempts to "educate" us. At least he won't be doing it in here.