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I feel sick. I just read this article (link below) and I had no idea that there had been so many cases of femic*de at the hands of random men since the Sarah Everard case.
On sunday, a woman called Zara Aleena was murdered by a man while walking 10 minutes from her home in London.
Why isn't there more being said about this? Why have these recent cases not received the same media coverage/outrage as the Sarah Everard case? I can't help but wonder if it's because many of these other women were from ethnic minorities.
Something needs to be done about this but I don't see how we will ever see real change under the patriarchy.
Trigger warning, the article mentions male violence and femic*de.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2022/07/01/why-isnt-zara-aleenas-name-on-the-tip-of-everyones-tongues-16928069/amp/
I find that there is a general reluctance to so much as call male violence as "male violence"...as if it is something that just happens....
I've been thinking about moving to London around next year and it's so hard to feel like I'd be safe considering that literally every fucking safety tool seems to be banned in the UK.
No knives, no tazers, no stun guns, no pepper spray like wtf is anyone supposed to do when they feel they're in danger? Sit and wait??
There has been stranger attacks happening in the city where I live too (smaller city than London). Mostly targeting ethnic women.
The official attitude is very much "the city is safe, don't make a big deal out of it, it'll marginalize the homeless". Homeless advocates always preemptively make noise against any police action.
Would they have this same blase attitude if it's city officials and homeless advocates being targeted for random attacks?
These men wouldn't pick them to be targets, though. They have enough cunning to know who they can get away with picking on.