by Connie Chastain*
The Internet is abuzz with the Casey Anthony verdict and I'm not really surprised to see that I'm not the only one viewing the murder of little Caylee, the trial and the verdict in light of feminism's influence on western culture. Being a rightwing extremist, I tend to agree with those who assign feminism a great deal of responsibility for social pathologies such as those demonstrated in this case.
One of the best columns I've read connecting our culture's callousness toward children and the feminist sacrament of abortion is found at the ultra-right American Thinker. In an article titled The Bitter Fruit of Caylee's Death, author Jeannie DeAngelis makes many salient points, but one that really struck me was this: Many murdering mothers are acquitted, "... which is indicative of a chilling truth that a mother murdering her own child is not nearly as offensive anymore as a child being murdered by a stranger. Who can deny this has a direct connection to the approbation our society gives to women who rid themselves of their child before birth?
And who believes, as I do, that this story would have unfolded iquite differently n the media if a man had been accused of murdering little Caylee? We would be subjected to unending diatribes about the violence of men against women and children.
Would be? We are, constantly. Although in recent years, it has become known that women instigate domestic violence against men, male victims are given little sympathy by society and violence perpetrated by females against males given scant attention. Women are badly injured, while men aren't hurt all that bad. Men who abuse are controllers and manipulators. Women who abuse are ill or disturbed. This is also true for mothers who murder.
I'm not saying there aren't any bad men. There are. But under feminist influence our society doesn't acknowledge the occasional bad man; it identifies maleness itself as bad, even though the vast majority of men do nothing wrong. Women, on the other hand, are basically good and decent and occasionally do bad things through little or no fault of their own.
This is the premise behind claims of rape culture. It is feminists holding men who do not rape responsible, in some measure, for those who do. It is the premise behind excuses given to women who falsely accuse men of rape. And it is why I believe things would have gone down very differently had the accused in Caylee's murder been a man.
However, as with so many other feminist assertions palmed off on our culture, this one has a reliable and realistic counter assertion that neutralizes the assumption of male evil. I'm talking about the Bureau of Justice Statistics charts on Child Maltreatment -- Fatalities by Perpetrator Relationship, 2003. The charts clearly indicate that mothers only are the perpetrator in 30.5% of cases, fathers only in 18.2%
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm03/figure4_2.htm
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm03/table4_5.htm
Now let me make it clear that I don't know whether Casey Anthony murdered her child and I'm not going to try to second guess the jury. But that's not my point, anyway. My point is that feminism has skewed the application of justice based on their victim-view of human history and an obsessive drive to get even for oppression that's largely imaginary.
Until we come to our senses, men can expect continued demonization, and excuses will be made for women who commit crimes, even the most heinous.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/the_bitter_fruit_of_caylees_death.html
*Connie is an FRS contributor. Her personal blog is http://conniechastain.blogspot.com/
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"But under feminist influence our society doesn't acknowledge the occasional bad man; it identifies maleness itself as bad . . . ."
Wow!
This is a landmark post. Share it with everyone you know.
http://aleknovy.com/2011/07/09/casey-anthony-didnt-get-away-with-it-because-of-a-pussy-pass-she-got-away-with-it-because-of-a-dick-pass/
"But… He says the FATHER must have done something… and says ”well, if he lied about one thing, then you know, who knows what else he did”
WHAT!?!!!? Apparently Casey saying 3423454 lies is no proof that she’s a lier, but if the father said one not-full-truth it makes him an all-out lier?"
Correct anonymous. The father "abused" Casey. Her lies are proof that he abused her.
My point is that feminism has skewed the application of justice
I'm not so sure it was just feminism although they bear a lot of the blame. Females have always got off easier than men and if I were to look up cases from 50 years ago I doubt that I'd find any female who was convicted of murdering her child (it would be a lessor charge) or who received the death penalty for murder. Perhaps at most she'd get a couple of years in prison if convicted on the manslaughter charge (maybe).Do you think Lizzie Borden would have been acquited of murdering her parents if she were a man? Females were never really executed for murder esp. if it was a man or baby they murdered and were rarely convicted of anything. The only few exceptions were crimes against the State like selling atomic secrets to an enemy(Rosenberg) or killing a leader like Lincoln where I believe a female was executed. In fact, I've never heard of a female convicted of murdering an ordinary man and being put to death.The last one executed in England was 60 years ago but she killed an upper class man and she was sort of a whore.Tucker was executed in Texas but in this case a man and female were killed. I doubt if Tucker would have been executed if only a man had died.
@ anonymous
may I refer the reader to http://wimminz.wordpress.com/2011-04/wimminz-morality-or-lack-of/
women were not always put on a pedestal of verisimilitude and worship
Anon@5:17, you are quite right. The tendency for the criminal law to be softer on female defendants existed well before feminism, rather than being a creation of contemporary feminism. Indeed, I believe it was the case in some jurisdictions prior to the 20th century that a man was legally responsible for his wife's crime.
Feminism largely exploited existing chivalrous cultural biases to gain a few more goodies for women, but they didn't create the entire culture from scratch.
Feminism won a few more goodies for women but, robbed them of more goodies than they (feminists) won for them. Human nature is not a plaything and men and women were never meant to be at war with each other.
Nick S sez, "The tendency for the criminal law to be softer on female defendants existed well before feminism..."
Yet another reason why they need to quit moaning and complaining about patriarchy... Women have been treated quite well throughout history.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013047/Rape-charge-England-cricketer-team-mate-dropped.html
zarko ”Correct anonymous. The father "abused" Casey. Her lies are proof that he abused her.”
I’ve been making the point that the jury was able to use the alleged molestation by her father as a way to explain away (for themselves) her behaviors and her extensive lies.
Here, in support of my theory, is an interview with alternate juror Dean Eckstadt by Anne Curry (http://www.hulu.com/watch/256387/nbc-today-show-alternate-juror-she-seemed-like-a-good-mother)
During the interview, Curry presses Eckstadt about the molestation allegation.
After some verbal fumbling, he finally gets round to the “meat” of the issue, and states, “It wasn’t taken away” – an awkward way of saying that the prosecution failed to prove that molestation had not occurred.
Further pressed by Curry about those allegations “having” to have been considered by (by himself), he finally agrees: ”Yes, yes”
So, in his way of thinking, the prosecution not only had to prove that Casey Anthony was guilty, but also that they would have had to disprove the molestation allegations (which were dropped as a bombshell during the defenses opening statement, leaving no time to have even tried to investigate them and find evidence to have refuted them).
It seems that most of the jurors (as opposed to alternates) aren’t saying much, and are not doing interviews where some like Anne Curry could ask tougher questions which could get them to reveal their rationale, but I do believe that if they ever were, they would answer much as Dean Eckstadt did – which is basically that the molestation charges weren’t disproven, and therefore they HAD to be considered (as the reason for Casey Anthony’s behaviors).
An enormous amount of circumstantial evidence against a woman could therefore be “undone” by nothing more than allegation made against a man - without any evidence what-so-ever.
Being a rightwing extremist, I tend to agree with those who assign feminism a great deal of responsibility for social pathologies such as those demonstrated in this case.
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LOL! This centrist libertarian enjoyed this.
Feminism --> enabling compulsive liars --> Casey Anthony.
You need to read this:
Why Jamie Leigh Jones Lost Her KBR Rape Case
http://motherjones.com/print/121751
It looks like the alleged gang rape that lead to a U.S. Senate investigation, and a "a bill barring the military from contracting with companies that require employees to arbitrate sexual harassment or assault claims" was based on an FRA.
Today this feminism is a real social problem in everywhere.
Feminists are stealing words and misusing them to spreading out male hatred attitudes and fighting against the whole nature. They are very keen to mislead the society by giving wrong definitions for words.
We must remember that men must be good men when the total female population is following a specific feminine life style.
Especially we must redefine those words which are related to sexual offenses,relative to a well established natural sexual life style which is acceptable within any human civilization.
Nick mentioned that he believed the Husband was responsible for a wife's crime in the past. He is right.
So feminism hasn't made women less likely to be convicted.
It obviously has made it less likely that the woman will be convicted. Women who murder their husbands or children get off all the time by using a phony story of abuse as a red herring.
I'm pretty sure that I'm communicating with a non-intelligent being who is utterly incapable of logic in any form, but... there it is.
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