Well, I have to say that the way that the Nowak case is being reported turns my stomach. I think it's safe to say that if a guy stalked a woman for two months, drove from Texas to Florida, following her flight plan, while wearing diapers so that he wouldn't be overly delayed, tracked her down in the parking lot, slammed on her window, pretended to be in need of help to get her to open it, sprayed her with pepper spray and had, among other things, a BB gun, a new knife and metal mallet, a change of clothes, rubber tubing, latex gloves, garbage bags and $600 in cash in the car, and attempted to ditch some of the evidence, he'd be crucified as an abusive, controlling, unhinged fuck. And they'd be right in calling him that.
Instead, this woman is being called "love-lorn," placed on $10K bail (which she is readily able to pay) and her attorney is saying that she should only be charged with battery, instead of first degree attempted murder, attempted kidnapping and other charges.
But it's a woman, and it's an emotional, love-based situation, so we should make exceptions, right? We should be more understanding, right? And take a more sympathetic view, yeah?
Fuck that. If a situation like this can't be viewed for what it is, there's no damn hope.
And... based on the near-complete lack of response to this issue, that lack of hope seems justified. Evidently people are more interested in saving sea turtles, removing shark fin soup from Amazon and paying for $20 chickens than they are in addressing obvious, massive gender-based double standards involving what seems to be a serious, premeditated plan for murdering someone that was sleeping with a woman's lover, while that woman was herself having an extramarital affair with him.
Seriously: anyone who really believes in the "radical notion that women are people" should be all over this. Talk about perpetuating gender stereotypes.... That notion includes the darker stuff as well as the light, you know. Or at least it should.
On a related note, this discussion of men's issues on TVOntario was a good view, especially when it came to Cathy Young's comments: parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
On an unrelated note, I completely support this initiative.
Instead, this woman is being called "love-lorn," placed on $10K bail (which she is readily able to pay) and her attorney is saying that she should only be charged with battery, instead of first degree attempted murder, attempted kidnapping and other charges.
But it's a woman, and it's an emotional, love-based situation, so we should make exceptions, right? We should be more understanding, right? And take a more sympathetic view, yeah?
Fuck that. If a situation like this can't be viewed for what it is, there's no damn hope.
And... based on the near-complete lack of response to this issue, that lack of hope seems justified. Evidently people are more interested in saving sea turtles, removing shark fin soup from Amazon and paying for $20 chickens than they are in addressing obvious, massive gender-based double standards involving what seems to be a serious, premeditated plan for murdering someone that was sleeping with a woman's lover, while that woman was herself having an extramarital affair with him.
Seriously: anyone who really believes in the "radical notion that women are people" should be all over this. Talk about perpetuating gender stereotypes.... That notion includes the darker stuff as well as the light, you know. Or at least it should.
On a related note, this discussion of men's issues on TVOntario was a good view, especially when it came to Cathy Young's comments: parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
On an unrelated note, I completely support this initiative.
friedhamster:
Anything interesting in La Crosse? My brother and I should be near there in... oooh June or so, sometime this summer at least.