“I had to turn this off. I was so furious. I’m a feminist and a staunch advocate of protecting women from abuse and highlighting the prevalence of femicide - when a man (for any NUMBER of reasons) murders a woman. Yet flip the tables and we are supposed to see Jennair as a victim of trauma because her husband was cheating, as a wounded soul who knows not what she did. We are supposed to see her as helpless to her despair. Absolutely not! Women are brilliant, strong, and capable. Women feel devastation when their relationships break up. But if we entitle Jennair to societal empathy and reduced culpability for her crime, then what does that say about the hundreds of thousands of men who murder their wives, wives’ new boyfriend, or their own children out of identical despair.
Jennair was desperate and devastated. She was also a terrifying stalker who is no different than the men who stalk women. She is not entitled to a different analysis because of her sex. Her behavior was unconscionably self centered and vicious; and every one of the interviewees who attempts to rationalize it is handing society a reason to shrug when a man stalks and murders a woman because of his “trauma” that the relationship is over. Shame on this podcast developer for painting such a horrific narrative.”
The last little liberal in TX via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/23/23