As if that weren't enough!

I've been reading Feministing and it does nothing but rile me up. Bah. Stories like this really piss me off.  I'm glad they have a trigger warning. Are things really getting worse for women and minorities, or am I oversensitive? 

Another angry rant

I don't know what it is lately but the news seems to get worse all the time. During my workday I listen to CNN radio breaks and I've heard I don't know how many reports about men who kill their entire families and then themselves. Why is this becoming so common all of a sudden? There have been and always will be cowards who abuse their families because we all know they have no dick, and that's what no-dick cowards do. They abuse their families. It seems though, that recently it's just gotten worse, and I'm not sure what that's about. Is it the state of our nation? Is it the unemployment rate? Is it that we are at war and hated all over the globe? Is it women's rights making already cowardly men feel even more threatened and then murderous? I really want the answers. It's been something that's been preying on my mind for a while now.

It's not something new. I heard about this guy, and thought maybe he was just nuts. I mean, he gets angry about a copier machine and gets ballistic? Ok. Psycho.

But really - I did a simple Google search about men who kill their families and I got literally thousands of hits. This is not uncommon, or as recent as I thought. We all remember the Texas shooter in the tower, and he killed his family before going on that rampage too, and that was back in 1966! That is hardly recent. I don't know. Maybe I'm just becoming more sensitive to it.

I think about the people with whom I've been involved and it occurs to me that I could have easily been in the newspaper for a minute one day when my ex-asshole-bastard killed me and what family we had, if I'd have stayed. Honestly though that isn't where I'm coming from. I'm just truly baffled about why there is so much violence against entire families by these men who are supposed to (if not love and care for them) at least not just blow them all away one day just for the fuck of it!

I know that violence against women and children is and has always been common, because cowardly assholes will always search for the easiest target. And no, I won't ever give an abuser the benefit of the doubt. No, I will not ever say he was confused or lost his temper once. No. All abusers are cowardly assholes who don't get a pass from me. Ever.

I still don't know why this is bothering me quite so much right now. I think it's the rising number of news stories that are casually thrown out on a daily basis. I hear this same story, over and over, about "Man kills family, then Self," it seems almost two or three times a week. A few weeks ago I heard a story and thought it was the same one being reported, but when I looked it up it was a new one. These are new and different numerous reports all the time.

Double-you, Tee, Eff?? This really bothers me. It's getting worse all the time, too. What is this a symptom of, whiny men who can't handle their lives? Well so fucking what, neither can we women, but we soldier on, goddammit! Whiny, infantile men who can't accept their wives' success, as in this Illinois man a little while ago?

Well grow the fuck up, assholes!! Why the fuck do these cowardly fucks feel so fucking threatened by women?? Is it the Christofascist Right who lies to them about where a woman belongs?? Is it this campaign to demonize feminism in the eyes of the unwashed masses?? I cannot believe that would cause all these men to murder their families.

Gah! I need a Valium.

Friday Feminism

Woman is the N****r of the World

John Lennon

Woman is the n****r of the world
Yes she is...think about it
Woman is the n****r of the world
Think about it...do something about it

We make her paint her face and dance
If she won’t be a slave, we say that she don’t love us
If she’s real, we say she’s trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is above us

Woman is the n****r of the world...yes she is
If you don’t believe me take a look at the one you’re with
Woman is the slave of the slaves
Ah yeah...better scream about it

We make her bear and raise our children
And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother then
We tell her home is the only place she would be
Then we complain that she’s too unworldly to be our friend

Woman is the n****r of the world...yes she is
If you don’t believe me take a look at the one you’re with
Woman is the slave of the slaves
Yeah (think about it)

We insult her everyday on TV
And wonder why she has no guts or confidence
When she’s young we kill her will to be free
While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb

Woman is the n****rof the world...yes she is
If you don’t believe me take a look at the one you’re with
Woman is the slaves of the slaves
Yes she is...if you believe me, you better scream about it.

We make her paint her face and dance
We make her paint her face and dance
We make her paint her face and dance

If you're offended by Lennon's use of the "n" word,
read this.

I censored my own damn blog because I personally do not like the word, but I can get behind a lot of John's (and Yoko's because the phrase was hers) statements in the song. And if I do it, is it considered censorship? Food for thought.