Where hatred of women goes
Guy goes to a shopping mall to kill people.
I say “people” but of course that’s wrong. Sheer habit; sorry.
He went there to kill women. A man tried to stop him so he killed that one man too, but the rest were all women. Women are shit; women need killing.
The man who went on a stabbing rampage in a Sydney shopping centre appears to have targeted women, police say.
Appears?
What would it take for the BBC to omit that “appears to have” part?
The New South Wales police commissioner told Australia’s ABC News that it was “obvious” Mr Cauchi focused on women.
The only man killed in the attack was security guard Faraz Tahir, 30, who tried to intervene.
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“The videos speak for themselves, don’t they?” commissioner Karen Webb said. “It’s obvious to me, it’s obvious to detectives… that the offender focused on women and avoided the men.”
But the BBC doesn’t consider it obvious.
I don’t know many of the details here. Is it possible the killer targeted women not because he particularly hated them, but because he thought they’d be less able or likely to defend themselves? Could it be cowardice rather than deliberate misogyny?
Perhaps the Beeb didn’t want to assume that the victims idennyfied as women.
Well, she’s literally a Karen, so can you take her word?
“Appears” is a perfectly reasonable word for the police or newspapers to use in context…
Sastra, I wondered about that as well. It’s also possible that there are simply a lot more women than men in a mall at any given time. (I don’t know this is true; just going by the “men hate to shop, women enjoy it” stereotype, which may or may not be a fair generalization.)
Of course wouldn’t surprise me at all if this turned out to be a crime motivated by misogyny.
OK, police are saying he DEFINITELY targeted women.
Apparently he was also schizophrenic and off his meds.
Apparently schizophrenic, off his meds, and obsessed with knives.