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GENDER VIOLENCE
...It Makes Some Feminists Want a World Without Men...
...But what about women's violence? If feminists (and the media) don't take women's violence seriously, why should men take women's opinions seriously? After all, according to ideological feminists' own definition of hate crimes, violence is merely an opinion acted out, a view expressed by behavior.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
"With this I will manipulate your little male brain." But all power carries a price tag.
CABLE TV'S CRIME SHOWS LOVE WHITE FEMALE HOMICIDE VICTIMS (At Male Matters)
In 2000, according to the Statistical Abstract's Table No. 313, more than three times as many males were murdered as females:
Men:------12,407
Women:---3,799
The homicide rates by sex and race per 100,000 population:
Black Men:--------38.6
Black Women:-----7.5
White Men:---------5.3
White women:-----2.1
As can be seen, the least victimized by homicide -- by far -- are white women.
Yet quite the opposite thought must occur to cable TV's crime-show producers. Consider some of their programs: Court TV's "Forensic Files," "Body of Evidence," and "I, Detective;" Discovery Channel's "The New Detectives," "Justice Files," and "The FBI Files;" and A&E's "American Justice," "Cold Case Files," and "Investigative Reports." These programs cover one crime topic almost exclusively: the murder of white women — night after night after night....
Check out, for example, Court TV's prime-time program descriptions.
If you weren't aware of the above homicide rates, you might think white women were the only victims of murder in America. And some people, particularly ideological feminists, might think women are hunted down and killed in the manner and on the scale that the Jews were in Hitler's Germany.
But other people, after learning of the over 300-percent higher murder rate for men, may wonder why aren't a lot more male homicides, especially black male homicides, qualifying as a worthy program topic. Instead, almost every time I channel-surf into one of these programs, I find an investigation into the murder of a white woman. [For the record — not that it matters — I am white.]
Suppose the programs' producers somehow labor under the false impression that women are murdered at a greater rate than men — if the producers truly believed this, they would be in the same catgegory as flat-worlders — and that women's murders therefore deserve near-exclusive coverage. Why, then, don't they air the investigation of a black woman's murder more than once in a blue moon, especially considering that black women are murdered at a rate three times higher than the rate white women are?
| According to Glenn Sacks, there are five times as many unsolved murders of men as there are of women.|
Why this intense fixation on females? Do the producers see females as "more worthy" victims? As profit-minded enterprisers, do they simply seek to capitalize on the gender compassion gap that generates more sympathy for female victims and hence draws more viewers and advertisers? Do they think sympathy for men is so deficient, and murders of men so commonplace, that the TV audience perceives male homicides as "Ho hum yawners"? Or can I charge the producers with the crime of operating while under the influence of ideological feminists who I believe have two aims:
— To politicize murder as principally a crime against women, and
— Hence to justify ever more increases in government spending to protect women, especially, it seems, white women, who always have been and continue to be the safest group in America, despite the hype about the "culture of violence against women," a notion fueled by cable TV's nightly parade of white female homicides.
| The power in television's obsessive profiling of white female victims is that the police and the community may be pressured into devoting more resources to these victims' cases. This could result in unequal protection of the law for other victims and their families, a violation of the Constitution's 14th Amendment. Just as bad, the fixation on white female homicides may lead many to think that if only these homicides matter, only white female lives matter. |
In any case, the over-representation of female homicides on cable TV (and on many network TV shows like "Dateline") doesn't just expose a racism and sexism. It doubtless enrages many women over "the epidemic of violence directed at females," and may terrify many more at the idea of going out alone just to buy a loaf of bread. (Miraculously despite all this, according to one poll, women feel safer than men!)
Tell the producers what you think about their biased programs!
Journalists: Don't be bamboozled by the hype!
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See these items published elsewhere in the latter part of 2004 and in 2005:
"Not white, female? Don't go missing.” "There are more than 47,600 active missing persons cases every year, 53 percent men...." In the UK, apparently men make up 73% of people who go missing each year.
Washington Post commentary, “Cable Can't Get Beyond the Pale.”
MSNBS report, "Damsels in distress: If you’re missing, it helps to be young, white and female".
Fox News story, "Missing Women Grab Headlines, but What About the Men?"
For more on how the media frighten women, see the newly published book, "Spin Sisters.”
Wow, this has been on my mind.
I was going to post on my blah-log about
this very issue.
The more suburban* the crime victim is, the more
coverage. May this poor girl in Utah rest in peace, but if she were less
attractive, less suburban*, less middle class = I doubt the coverage would
be so extensive.
(This reminds me of a classic line from the sardonic Artie (Rip Torn) from "The Larry Sanders Show" after being informed by the network that the Wu-Tang Clan are "too urban" to be booked: "Well, I could call up my good friend Lenny Kravitz--he's only half urban." )
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“Are you expecting book-deal money
associated with Amber Frey?” The question could as well be, ‘are you
expecting to travel to Greenland soon?’ The answer should be a simple yes
or no. Yet, Gloria Allred’s answer to questions on a forthcoming Amber Frey
book deal is always ambiguous to say the least. What Allred and Frey are
about to receive is blood-money from Laci’s murder. To assume this is as
circumstantially valid as Scott Peterson’s verdict. The more simplistically
we view Allred’s pro-bono efforts pushed almost immediately upon Amber
following her media fame, the clearer Allred’s real character becomes.
There’s a reason why some lawyers
are euphemized as
‘ambulance-chasers.’ and Gloria Allred gives new meaning to it. Which is
more likely, Amber Frey seeking Gloria Allred’s legal services or Allred
soliciting Amber? The latter is certainly the most likely.
One of the
many disconnects between justice and law was shown in the public's
glorification of Amber Frey, led by her attorney, Gloria Allred.
Prosecutors usually pursue all contributing parties in a given crime.
Reckless driving manslaughter is common, the conviction of which is
accepted by the public even though no intent or premedi- tation exists.
There are many scenarios holding indirect criminal participation culpable
as well. Why can't society hold an Amber Frey guilty to a degree in the
murder of Laci Peterson and her baby? Why isn't the total human
responsibility recognized in this and other such crimes? The more
indecorous the character, as Amber's proved to be, the greater the sentence
should be as well.
Amber's reputation was really in the dirt.
Ignoring the obvious, and for lucrative reasons, Gloria Allred rallied to
Amber's defense calling her a "hero, courageous, and steadfast." How much
hypocrisy can the public digest? The fact that Amber is a masseuse, bore
multiple illegitimate babies, and sold her naked body for the world to see,
makes her ineligible for hero status in my opinion - let's ration and savor
such words as "hero" for soldiers risking lives for buddies or the
arthritic dad taking on a second job to help in his kids in college. Let's
not pervert precious words on people of dubious character.
Amber
Frey became afraid and contrite when she realized that she might be
suspected by the police as an accomplice to Laci Peterson's murder. No
doubt she was shocked when the revelation of Scott's real capability was
given her and the world to see. All of a sudden, bedding a married man
wasn't so cool. Suddenly, it seemed reasonable to become self-righteously
indignant against Scott and a crusader for the police. But all of this
sounds as though Amber knew, to which she denied, that Scott Peterson was
married. It's likely that a woman with Amber's promiscuous experience
coupled with the age of the affair, which should have included at least one
trip to bachelor Scott's home, pointed to total awareness on her part that
she was trespassing on another woman's territory. That idea was
successfully squelched however, by
Court TV and others who seemed, even
with one’s eyes and ears closed, feminist-driven in their critiques and
side-remarks on the case. The scrutiny over Scott Peterson’s moral
character was vehemently pursued while Amber’s moral character was
delicately washed and defended. Apparently, the adage that “it takes two to
tango” has gotten too old to use anymore. Regardless, responsibility to
know rather than assume her suitor's marital status was Amber's and there's
zero evidence that she spent any energy or resource to verify the facts.
Cable TV helped Gloria Allred create the new Amber Frey with
almost unlimited TV exposure and unchallenged acceptance of Gloria's PR
work on Amber. In order to see the real Amber Frey we must dilute the
gallons of character-perfume that attorney Allred poured upon her
well-documented demimondaine client. The mindset which finds a way to
praise the likes of Amber is the same that declares a women's provocative
talk or dress shouldn't have anything to do with rape or sexual harassment.
Well, it does and always will, and yet feminism insists on using the power
of sex to promote women in all channels of society while refuting the
inevitable repercussions. Gloria Allred's dual agenda involving herself in
this case had nothing to do with defending the "vulnerable" Amber Frey but
everything to do with future book and movie money while simultaneously
promoting feminism.
And what is it with Allred’s nearly uncontrolled diatribe against Peterson's attorney, Mark Geragos? Before and during the trial, Gloria Allred launched a seemingly personal attack on him. If Geragos ever said or did anything outside the courtroom in hopes that jurors might get some media table crumbs swaying them his way, Allred did the same multiplied by ten in hopes of wrecking the defense case. Her insistence to be on TV across the cable channels was almost embarrassing to watch, exceeded only in her ostensible hatred for men - a thing more clearly understood taking her feminist past into account. In fact, such a feminist undertone permeated the Peterson trial, led by Court TV’s beautiful female attorney commentators, with a fixation not on the crime as much as Laci herself. It was almost nauseating listening to Nancy Grace laud Laci and her mom time after time with emotional crescendos of near worship. It would be amazing to hear Nancy give a tenth the attention to a non-educated, non-yuppie murdered white man, statistically twice in number over Laci’s class. No, you’ll never see months and millions spent by the media on lower class heinous murders – there’s no money in it and feminism is not stirred nor served by it. Such distraction from the facts of the case and focus upon what wonderful middle class people comprised the case, that the concern of an emotionally-rendered verdict over a factually based decision was quite real and a few legal analysts, women included, addressed the two possibilities.
When "guilty" rang across the wires and into the
courthouse streets, it was women peaking the applause meter. The cheering
following the verdict was contemptible. Instead of carnival enthusiasm,
justice and victory should be received with sobriety. What prompted a mass
of people to react this way? The media is largely responsible for the
crowd's reaction, the result of decades propagandizing the public to see
nearly everything for its sport's value. Gloria Allred assumed a
cheerleader’s role for civility-deficient people who failed to consider
this case for it’s total tragedy, and she did it for money. When will
America wake up and see the consumerism job being done to them by the media
and its lawyers dramatizing key crimes and events for the revenue that
ratings bring? Thank you America for micro-scoping your attention on this
one crime while hundreds of other heinous murders lacking yuppie status
were confined to local newspapers only. Thank you America for making Amber
Frey rich and Gloria Allred richer off the death of another.
Only
one main theme should have governed people's thoughts in the Peterson case.
A human being murdered a human being. Ah, but that won't sell
advertisement! We need some pepper and salt and sauce for simple meat! And
with that mandate, the media did what it does best, seek the things which
stir our emotions and aspirations, then repeat, repeat, repeat. The
pictures of Laci, the testimonials of people who knew her, and the focus
upon Laci's mom's indignation and hurt, set the stage for a monumental
drama. Forget the fact that other horrific crimes were committed in other
parts of the country over the many months following Laci's murder. They
didn't have all the combined features or the lucrative potential as did
Modesto's finest. This one was marketable and the media missed no
opportunity to make millions and millions in ratings advertisement off the
death of a mother and her baby. The victim was white, relatively affluent,
beautiful, smart, outgoing, a woman, and pregnant. As the TV executives saw
it, all of that trumps a murdered, common, non-illustrious, GED recipient,
factory-working middle-aged white man, ten to one. For the factory worker
and family, the Peterson's and Rocha's lifestyles were to be aspired, and
fortunately, the media kings thought, everybody has a TV! For Laci's upper
middle class peers, this was their chance to be in the spot light, to
identify and rally for the kind woman undeserving of such an egregious
offense; lower classes sometimes deserving, they thought in the deepest
recesses of their minds - but not Laci! She's the epitome (and offspring)
of optimism, success, beauty, charm, and would have been a great soccer
mom.
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Isn't it funny how White women are the most ardent, whiny, hateful
misandrists...yet also the most pampered, overprivileged class in the
world?
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