“The interventions of conscience no longer apply to him [her]. He [she] is not human. He [she] is an *it*.” (page 57, The Sociopath Next Door).

So what makes a man an ‘it’ deserving of violence is being a mass murderer. For women it’s being in possession of female parts and being out in public.

Oh. Oh. I almost started crying when I read this. It’s so true. I can’t believe how much hate there is in this world for women, just because we were born into our bodies.

My dad, interestingly, has made a twenty-year transition from Libertarian to radical feminist-friend. And it’s because of stuff like you’re experiencing as a parent, seeing his daughter grow up in a world that expects her to submit and be ritualistically stomped upon. His path gives me hope, when other things fail.

Precisely, and that’s the way the boys want to keep it thank you very much. Otherwise, they might have to learn how to think and feel to get even remotely close to a woman.

“Mom, why is she wearing her swimsuit?” questions the 4yo, quite reasonably.

What do I tell her? What do I tell her in 10 years?

“Darling, your body is so desired and hated at the same time that men will use it to sell anything they want to.”

Just got back from vacation, and damn did it drive home the point that women are for sale everywhere. Literally everywhere. Our bodies are used to sell drinks, cigarettes, various types of foods, restaurants — you name it, there’s some curvy blonde thing prancing around promoting it. The subconscious lure, of course, is that the dudely thing that purchases these goods is also tacitly purchasing the hawt young female body. But of course, since most of these dudely young things resemble squat, bulky, semi-albino, strategically shaven apes, the hawt young female bodies fail to materialize. And then the young dudely creature gets angry and instead of going after the people who sold him the crap in the first place, he vents his spleen on representatives of the hawt female bodies.

At least that’s a theory that’s buzzing around my tired head right now. It seems virtually impossible to buy any commodity without buying the idea of a willing female body right along with it. Which equates to at least half the purchases one can make with prostitution. And as we all know, dudely sorts are allowed to do whatever they want to prostitutes, because they are Willing Sluts Who Deserve What They Get.

All this seems to lead back to the idea that women=commodity. Bought, purchased, and used with the media’s and the patriarchy’s blessing.

Shit, I’m too tired to work this any further right now. Feel free to take up the baton, you brighter lights.

No, I don’t think misogyny is a myth. I think it exists plenty, and BRAVO to you for actually DOING something to stop it instead of sitting here whining about it. Letters to the two attorneys and the judge in this case are also in order.

This from the defense attorney: Mike Roberts, the defendant’s attorney, got the alleged victim to acknowledge on cross-examination that she went to El Charro with the Taylors and drank there of her own free will, and that she and Taylor’s wife asked him to go get more alcohol for them once they got back to the shop. *

Her boss should be Dean Dankelson, Prosecuting Attorney
Courthouse
302 S. Main St.
P.O. Box 411
Carthage, MO 64836
(417) 358-0433
Jasper Co. Courts Bldg.
601 Pearl
Joplin, MO 64801
(417) 625-4314