Reply #267: I guess I have to plead guilty, bloom,

[Tansy_Gold]

to trying to figure out a way that "malicide" would fit into the same plane as "femicide." But you're right, it just doesn't in the cas eof the jealous husband, because that gendered hierarchical inequality isn't present.

And maybe that's the key to it all: There's still a patriarchal conception of the male as superior to the female, so that inherent in femicide is an aspect of "power-over," a kind of ultimate one-upsmanship. the male killer is essentially establishing -- or re-establishing -- his power over the subordinate female.

I know that most people, including most people here on DU probably, are more comfortable with the idea that murderers are just nutcases, but I really do find it fascinating to examine the possibility that there are causes for unnecessary violence that can be identified and "treated" to make us a stronger, happier, safer community.


Tansy Gold