#every time I think about Aileen Wuornos I am enraged by the misogyny that led to her death
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Judicial misogyny:
Men who rape, torture, slaughter, and defile anywhere from 5-100 people (usually women or children) get a life sentence.
Women who kill <10 men (in a quick way with minimal suffering, no less) because of previous abuse by those men get death
Journalistic Misogyny:
These crimes being presented as being equal in cruelty, scope, and scale, and without context for the perpetrators actions.
Male serial killers do so for fun. Women often do it out of stress, fear, or for vengeance against their abusers and rapists.
They are not the same.
#every time I think about Aileen Wuornos I am enraged by the misogyny that led to her death#and the fact that truly evil and depraved men get more empathy and forgiveness than her#because being a woman seeking vengeance against men challenges the status quo and that is absolutely deplorable according to patriarchy#but being an evil man doing horrendous things to dozens of people somehow is part of the status quo and goes unchallenged#make it make sense#misogyny#feminism#feminist#serial killer
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