“Shut Up, Bitch” Won’t Shut Us Up
It proves our point and fuels us
There have been some pretty horrendous examples of sexism and misogyny in the news recently.
In the UK, we had the unbelievably awful “revenge” killing of a young woman, her sister and her mother at the hands of an ex-boyfriend. Although we know the killer shot them all at close range with a crossbow, the details of what mother Carol and daughters Hannah and Louise Hunt went through are still unfolding, and I won’t recount them here.
In the same timeframe, a man was jailed for life for the “cold-blooded” murder of his estranged wife, Rachel McDaid, by strangling her with a bootlace. The murderer took the bootlace to the scene, made arrangements for his dog to be cared for after his inevitable arrest, and locked all the doors from the inside before he left the house.
In Canada, a serial killer who preyed on Indigenous women was sentenced to decades in prison. Justice Glenn Joyal said the case “laid bare the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada.”
Meanwhile, in Kenya, a suspected serial killer confessed to murdering forty-two women between 2022 and Thursday, 11 July 2024. Only nine bodies have been recovered, and “were severely dismembered, in different states of decomposition, and left in sacks.”