I haven't posted in a really long time. I meant to keep this blog up to date, I really did. Life happens though. I'm going to try to do better. Anyway, I have been thinking long and hard the past two days about the events of Friday night in Isla Vista, Southern California. I've been thinking about all that still remains to be done in order to stop all the violence against women. I'm so frustrated, heartbroken, and truly disappointed in the world, that there is a strong possibility that when I have children, not enough will have changed, and I'll have to be afraid every time they step outside my home.
The point of this post is that six people are dead because someone set out to kill people. Before doing so, this person made a video of their intent, stating the reasons they believed they were entitled to do so. If a woman had been the murderer, having made a video before hand outlining all the reasons that she felt entitled to take someone else’s life because she wasn't happy with how she was being treated by them, there would be no question by the media and those reporting the news that it was an act of misandry.
But it wasn't a woman who committed this crime, who took peoples lives. It was a man, and that is why it’s being excused, by news reports denying that misogyny had any part, that it was a mental illness only that made this man go off the edge. This is entitlement has got to stop. Violence against women has to end, hell, violence against people period has to end. It just ends in loss of life, and it’s unnecessary.
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