Child Rapes and Serial Killers - Use and Abuse of Females Worldwide
One example is an atrocity happening in South Africa. Men infected with the AIDS virus are raping young women, children, even infants, because they believe sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. Awareness campaigns attempt to disprove this myth of the Virgin Cure, but the number of child and infant rapes continues to grow.
Some of the world's most notorious serial killers prey upon women for equally misguided and horrific beliefs. My colleague, World News Guide Bridget Johnson, tells the tale of an Indonesian man executed for killing 42 women and girls in order to gain magical powers. This follows on the heels of another story Bridget covered earlier this spring - the trial of France's worst serial killer, a man who used his grandmotherly-looking wife to lure virgin girls whom he raped and killed.
Likewise, Indonesia's serial killer also involved his wife in the murders.
Both women have been tried for their crimes, but clearly, they weren't driven by the same motivations as their husbands. Women who kill, such as serial killer Aileen Wuornos, often do so out of fear for their own lives. The long-term exposure to extreme trauma and its impact on a woman's sense of self and her own dehumanization can't be discounted.
Again, it all comes back to the same issue: Valuing women. Respecting women. Not commodifying women as objects of salvation, miracle cures, sexual gratification, or magical powers to possess and destroy.
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Female serial killers often kill for money. Alieen chose to be a prostitute and after bad experiences and killed out of hatred of men. She chose to get a man and to deliberately murder him for his money.
Female serial killer method: 80% posion.
Motive: 74% Money
With serial killers it’s not about not valuing women, it’s about not valuing human life. They don’t value human life… women are easier targets and even more easier are prostitutes. Most male serial killers are attracted to women (homosexuals such as Jeff Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen both killed men and homosexual serial killers tend to kill men) and serial killers tend to have domineering mothers and absent fathers.
I could say more but all I will say is do some research before you spout out your garbage.
“Women who kill, such as serial killer Aileen Wuornos, often do so out of fear for their own lives.”
If you can’t be bothered to learn about female serial killers in general (who are just as evil as men), at least learn about the case you cite as an example. Wuornos most certainly did not kill out of fear for her own life, and I can’t think of a single female serial killer out of countless examples who did kill for that reason.
The basic upshot of this essay seems to be that women are always pure and blameless even when they are serial killers and that sick men who do bad things are doing so primarily to keep women powerless even if their victims aren’t even female.
If the argument is that women need to be valued as human beings, you won’t get any argument from me. But the more important point is that humans need to be valued as humans, and if you need to tear down men and rationalize away the bad behavior of women to justify yourself you’re real goal obviously isn’t to have women be valued equally.
Gentlemen, I know this conversation can take place without rudeness or nastiness.
Two items I’d like to emphasize:
First, I use the word “often,” not “always” and there’s a big distinction.
Second, I have done the research on Wuornos, and base my statements on the work of Dr. Phyllis Chesler, an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at City University of New York. She is an author, psychotherapist and an expert courtroom witness. In an article I wrote about prostitution statistics and rape I quote from Chesler:
My discussion of the motivations of some female serial killers focuses on Wuornos and the two wives of the serial killers in France and Indonesia who have claimed that they felt in fear for their own lives. Thus they assisted in the murders that their husbands committed.
No one - man, woman, or child - should have their life end in such a violent manner. Certainly there is evil in a person who can commit such crimes.
But in the case of these three women, who were living under conditions that would result in significant post traumatic stress disorder, there is at least a measure of understanding we can glean from why they did what they did.
You notice that it’s always men who react in such an agressive and hostile way! True to their natures! Women do tend to kill for money, men kill for money also; difference- men tend to kill for the thrill of it..often.
You will find few women who kill for the thrill. If men killed strickly for the ‘dehumanizing’ affect and because they didn’t value human life, why don’t they target men instead of women- regardless of sexual motivations. It has nothing to do with devaluing human beings…it has everything to do with hating women. And there are lots and lots of men out there that hate women…so much so that they have a name for it, it’s called mysogeny. It’s strange that they don’t have a name for women who hate men. It’s not because there aren’t plenty of women who hate men, or plenty of women who don’t have lots of reason to hate men. No, not that at all. It just so happens that women are a whole lot more forgiving than men will ever be. So guys, don’t be so butt-hurt that a few women out here hate men; we have alot more reason to hate you than you have to hate us. Don’t make me sight statistics…you know the truth.