Stop lying about the sex of mass murderers
The killer at Tumbler Ridge was male, insisting otherwise is a desperate move from a patriarchy with its back to the wall
Last week I wrote a post that went viral about Epstein and Pelicot and pornography and male violence against women and having to talk to my daughters about spiking etc, with the over-arching question: maybe it is all men? It must have been shared in some kind of men’s rights activist or incel forum, because the gates of hell opened and a torrent of abusive tweets poured out, all of them doing very little to enhance my worldview of the male of the species. I was called a hag, a dumb bi***, ugly, a whore, scum, transphobic, hysterical, a grifter, old, a c***, a bad mother, sent a picture of a guillotine, told to go f*** myself, told my children should be taken from me, etc etc etc.
You could hear the desperation in the endless barrage of tweets, which, alongside abusing me, my looks and my character, were all shouting the same message, like they’d learnt it from a playbook: women do bad things too! In fact maybe women are even WORSE!! They sent photo after photo of Ghislaine Maxwell, as if this were the ultimate gotcha, as well as multiple references to other female criminals: primarily Hindley, Letby, and female teachers who had abused their male pupils. But mostly Ghislaine. You could almost hear the snot coming down their noses as they excitedly copy pasted her image into my replies, mouth-breathing away in their mum’s basements in their crusty underpants.
The existence of Ghislaine and her role in the Epstein story excites them so much because in their view, she completely disproves my suggestion that abusive and violent crime is a male problem. She is the drop of poison that spoils the well. They desperately want evidence that women can do bad, evil things, because it gets them off the hook: ‘no need to look in the mirror, chaps! men and women can be equally nasty!”
They also further twist the situation to make a case against feminism, and against equality, for example:
