I'm not watching that psycho's video. Cheers to Nikki Giovanni for protecting the rights of the women in her class by kicking Cho Seung Hui out. Here's the story at the NYT. He was photographing them under the desk and writing bad poetry about objectifying women and invading their bodily integrity.
How he was able to stalk three women and be allowed to remain on campus remains a mystery. You can be expelled for plagiarism, but not for being a predator?
In March 2006 Mary Winkler shot and killed her husband Matthew in their home. I was trying to find details of the case at the time, but it was kept quiet most likely because her husband was a pastor at some church in Tennessee. The first thing that I thought was that whatever he did to her would be hushed up by the community because he was a "holy man."
Anne O'Neill's report from the trial quotes Winkler as saying that her husband was abusive and manipulative. He exhibited classic control freak behavior by keeping her isolated away from her family and friends and kept her in line with violent outbursts. He forced her to wear costumes, watch pornography, and engage in sex acts that she disliked. She says she did it and anything he wanted just to keep him happy and have peace in the home. In reference to the shooting she said "I guess my ugly came out."
She said that because whenever she complained to him or tried to stand up for herself he told her that her ugly was coming out and that she would have to put it away.
This bible-wielding misogynist did everything he could to stamp out this woman's sense of self and reduce her to an obedient servant. He coded her agency as that which was "ugly" and tried to force her to submit, submit, submit.
Let this be a lesson to the misogynists: some women will snap just like Mary Winkler
I hope that she's acquitted and can raise her three daughters outside of that cult of woman-hating.
Follow Up: I googled Mary Winkler to see if she was getting sympathy online and found this putrid article by Jason Miles on the site for the "Action News 5" WMC-TV station in Memphis. The headline is "January 2007: cellphone pictures show Winkler smoking and drinking at McMinnville bar." Miles reads her behavior as transgressive and as evidence of her guilt.
He should be ashamed of himself for such a slanderous and cheap attack.
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Excellent article on Mary Winkler. I fail to understand why all the information was not allowed to be seen/heard by the jury.
It should make no difference whether the (dead) victim was a minister or not. Mary Winkler is the living victim and she has suffered for years. I don't believe she intentionally shot him.
From a strictly philosophical view point, who could blame her for wanting him dead. She felt trapped, she saw his evil being directed toward the children, I can see in her abused mind where she might think death was her only way out. Not that this is what she should have done.
Right, Debbie, it shouldn't matter that he was a preacher, but I remember when the story broke that it made her look automatically guilty because he was clergy and a stand in for god. Now how many of these men are petty tyrants who are mad with power because they have a pulpit and a position of unquestioned authority in the community. Meanwhile Mary and the girls are locked into a very frightening life.
I don't blame her, either.
It was simple self defense.
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