Selfies with a mutilated corpse
Just fucking unbelievable. The Jack the Ripper “museum” was promoting the opportunity to take selfies with “Jack” and the facsimile corpse of one of the murdered mutilated women. Selfies with the corpse of a slashed woman. What is wrong with everyone?
The museum was promising Halloween selfies with models of his victims and the founder of the museum, who was dressed as Jack the Ripper.
“Dressed as Jack the Ripper” doesn’t mean anything, because no one knows who the murderer was. “Perp the mutilator” would be a better name for him. (Yes, I doubt the perp was a woman.)
On their website, they posted: “How about a picture with Jack in Mitre Square together with the body of Catherine Eddowes?”
No doubt they did that in order to get publicity, and no doubt we’re falling into their trap by talking about it, but too bad. They did it to drum up business, whether by deliberately stirring up outrage or not; it’s misogynist and disgusting either way. They’re dealing in anti-erotic anti-women porn, the kind of porn that’s for men who can’t get it up unless they’re fantasizing about violence against women. That is fucked up.
That is sick shit
It may be sick shit but it has been going on for hundreds of years. I don’t understand the sudden sensitivity to this sort of grand guignol. Did nobody notice Madame Tussaud’s or the London Dungeon before?
Pinkeen, I believe Ophelia is not referring to the general, but rather to the particular.
Have you read the related posts, the first one (How the women got in that situation in the first place) in particular?
DUe to the fact that the identity of the person is not known, this publicity effort – and in fact the entire ‘museum’ – may as well rename itself The Museum of Some Guy in Victorian Era Clothing Who Kills Women. Hey kids, come take a selfie posing with Guy In Period Clothing as he murders someone yaaay! For some reason we’ve chosen the era’s most infamous killer to commemorate the era, despite not even knowing who he is or what he did (aside from being a sadisttic misogynist)!
Holms, that should be “The Museum of Some Guy in Victorian Era Clothing Who Kills and Gruesomely Mutilates Women”
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Wait a minute… ‘the FOUNDER of the museum… was dressed as Jack the Ripper.’
Did he switch costumes from ‘Leather Apron’ to the Duke of Clarence according to the customer’s preference? That the founder of the ‘museum’ puts HIMSELF in the role of the Whitechapel murderer speaks volumes.
There is a long-standing obsession with these crimes, and a long tradition of tourism and lurid publications. None of which would justify the use of charitable funds to crank up this ‘museum.’ But if the owner/founder is so obsessed as to play the part himself, I suspect his background and history could do with some investigation.
A friend and I went on a free Jack the Ripper tour across Whitechapel last week. The guide was an old man who told the stories of the women with respect, making us empathize. When asked about the “museum”, he criticized it as sternly as British manners permit it and discouraged the whole group from going. Indeed most of the story he told as we walked was focused on clarifying the myths and misconceptions surrounding the murderer which this “museum” profits from.