Imagine the scene: thousands of students are about to return to a university city where a young woman has been brutally murdered. The police do not know where or when she died but they announce that her killer "remains at large". They call on men not to go out after dark until the killer is caught. "We ask men to go out in the evening only if their journey is really necessary, and to make sure they're accompanied by a woman," says the senior investigating officer.W.T.F.F..!?!
Well, that's my fantasy.
What the police have actually done in Bristol, where they're under huge pressure to identify the killer (or killers) of a young landscape architect, is issue an appeal to women not to walk home alone after dark.Let me explain something to you, Joanie - there is a vast, yawning gulf between issuing sensible instructions to a possible vulnerable group in the event of a possible danger, and suggesting that 50% of the population be regarded with suspicion purely due to their genitalia!
And she isn't done with the bone-headed idiocy either:
They've issued this alarming edict even though there's a glaring hole in their logic: detectives say they're "satisfied" that 25-year-old Joanna Yeates arrived at her flat in Clifton on 17 December, the night she disappeared, which suggests that home isn't a particularly safe option for local women either.They are satisfied she arrived, yes. They don't know if she was abducted in the flat, or subsequently left and was abducted on the street.
So they are playing it safe, and issuing an appeal to take reasonable precautions. Becaudse if they didn't do something, they'd be castigated in the press for 'not caring about women's safety' by...who?
Oh, that's right. Logic-deficient single-issue left-wing harridans like you.
Well actually as most women who are murdered, are done so by their husbands, statistically they would be safer on the street than at home.
ReplyDeleteIt's not possible that the killer was a woman, is it? It is? Wow.
ReplyDeleteBest lock up everyone, not just the ones with testicles, just to be sure.
She doesn't seem to get the point of the warning- to protect potential victims. She assumes that it is just a piece of grandstanding of no consequence like writing a newspaper column.
ReplyDeleteAlso I'm going out on a limb here but if the perpetrator is willing to break laws against murder, he might be willing to break a voluntary curfew.
trust a femanist to come up with the idea that sugesting to an apparent at risk group that taking extra personal security measures in light of an unsolved crime targeting a female to be sexist. FFS. Men are not responsible for the actions of a male murderer if that is this criminal's gender. equaly women are not responsible for the actions a sickos that make false allegations of rape.
ReplyDeletetake the advice or don't take it, on your head be the concequences, not mine.
Trust an extremist to see a perfectly sensible (if hysterical) warning as a political statement.
ReplyDeleteAlso trust an extremist to make political capital out of a murder.
Julia- your description of JS as a 'logic-deficient single-issue left-wing harridan' is spot on. Best wishes, and may your acute powers of observation continue unabated during the rest of the year.
ReplyDeleteAs an example of Smith's logic deficiency, look at the sentance in the article where she urges the police to 'look out for and challenge men on dark streets'.This is a clear invitation to the Bristol police to profile their stops and searches on gender grounds. If however (on the basis of information received)the plods subsequently refined their profiling, and factored in age,mode of dress, and ethnicity, I think we would hear howls of outrage from the Joan Smith's of this world.
The 'killer remains at large' is an obvious statement since the only suspect has been released out on bail. Did anyone else spot this?
ReplyDelete"...as most women who are murdered, are done so by their husbands, statistically they would be safer on the street than at home."
ReplyDeleteHeh!
"It's not possible that the killer was a woman, is it? "
It's not something that should ever be ruled out, unless there's positive DNA evidence otherwise.
"...I'm going out on a limb here but if the perpetrator is willing to break laws against murder, he might be willing to break a voluntary curfew."
Quite. But then as Rob points out, to an opportunist like her, anything serves the cause.
"If however (on the basis of information received)the plods subsequently refined their profiling, and factored in age,mode of dress, and ethnicity, I think we would hear howls of outrage from the Joan Smith's of this world."
Oh, you can take that to the bank! Look at the silence in the media over the 'rape gang ring'...
"The 'killer remains at large' is an obvious statement since the only suspect has been released out on bail."
I still feel that the MSM coverage prompted the police to jump before they were ready...
Bristol is a shithole, especially St Pauls, when someone one dies there the planet gets classier by a minute amount.
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