A little more clarification of yesterday’s post about women who get away with murder. I am NOT saying that the man can beat his wife and terrorize her. Even though I say this I am sure all the feminists who read this post will argue that is what I am saying.
The woman of the story should have done something, anything else to change this situation, not commit premeditated murder then use ‘battered women’s syndrome’ to excuse the fact that she did so. So I argue that the man should be in jail for abusing a woman, but since the woman murdered him she should get 25 to life.
‘But she was afraid for her life, in constant fear.’ Okay consider this hypothetical. A man owns a small business and has invested all of his money and borrowed heavily to improve it so that he can support his family better and comfortably retire. His restaurant is in the jurisdiction of an incredibly corrupt and ruthless city water inspector. One day the inspector tells him that he will hit him with a hefty fine for some made up water usage thing unless the man gives him 2500 bucks.
The man refuses and the Inspector gives him the ticket. The man challenges it and loses, the courts refuse to believe that the inspector is crooked and has to pay the fine which puts him further into debt. A couple of months later, the inspector again blackmails the man and the man pays him off this time, borrowing more money. This goes on for several years until the man is at the end of his rope and when the inspector shows up again shoots him in the face with a shotgun and hides him in the freezer for a year. When he is finally caught, the man claims that the inspector had him in fear of his life and that he was acting in ’self-defense.’
You can argue that the man was indeed in fear of his life, the restaurant was his livelihood and the inspector was out to ruin him. Would you argue that the man should walk away or should he go to prison for committing premeditated murder?
Filed under: Feminsim | Tagged: Crime and Punishment, Domestic Violence, Feminism, Misandry
