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Spooky Owl!

Spooky Owl!

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Crimson said:
Seriously. I don't care if it's prison or an asylum. Lock her up for life.
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But she could teach people not to kill their children. Or how to handle it if they do.
 
Frankenstein Underworld

Frankenstein Underworld

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Mel O'Drama said:
From the little I've read and watched, there seems to be a similar discourse around the execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike.

I've just watched a BBC News short where the focus is heavily on Pike's poor mental health and trauma. The brutal torture and murder she committed is described as a "horrible tragedy". And the short ends with the line:


I don't doubt there are many on death row with similarly challenging backgrounds. But how often would this factor into the story when a murderer is male? It feels very imbalanced.

I disagree with the execution, but that's because I oppose the death sentence. Irrespective of gender.


(And wasn't the sentencing judge was a woman anyway?)
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George Carlin once said the death penalty only exists to satisfy a Biblical need for vengeance. Locking them up for the rest of their natural life should be punishment enough.

On the other hand, all of the concern over Pike "reliving her childhood trauma" as she dies is a bit much for me. Lots of people have childhood trauma, and they don't smash a person's head and steal a piece of their skull as a souvenir. Pike asked to at least be executed by an all-female firing squad, but Tennessee doesn't offer that option. They went ahead with the lethal injection, but after two doses, Pike was still alive. This has happened several times before, so it feels both barbaric and ridiculous that they still use this method. In another bizarre twist, Pike was sent to the hospital after the botched execution for "medical treatment." Everything about this feels like the definition of insanity.
 
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Spells & Karma

Spells & Karma

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This video - posted by someone who routinely stops dangerous drivers - is a few years old, but a new reaction to it came up in my feed this morning and watching it again made me think how the turn it quickly takes is inevitable when someone who knows they're in the wrong needs leverage to "win":


I'm a woman. You've come and approached me. You're threatening me. You're scaring me....
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Followed by:

I want you to touch me. Touch me - do something to me.
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You've seen a woman this morning and you wanna slap her. Slap her around. Slap her left an' right. That's what you feel like doing 'cause I'm female. Is that was it is? ....You're recording me without my consent. You will be in a lot of trouble, I promise you.
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I find myself wondering what would happen in a situation where the man didn't have a camera to document what had happened.

Even though she didn't end up prosecuted, there's still something satisfying in seeing her reaction when the police (her phone call to them was also inevitable) instruct her to do exactly what she was asked to do in the first place.
 
Spells & Karma

Spells & Karma

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Spooky Owl! said:
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Darn. I'll try posting the reaction video instead :


You may need to click through to YT to see it. Here's the reaction video and the original.


After I watched, another video was suggested, which is the infamous one with the two doctors who are too entitled to obey the law. Until today, I hadn't noticed almost the same thing happens. After marching up to the man, making a display of taking his photo and telling him how unimportant he is, the female doctor gets back into her enormous car alongside her husband, leans out the window and announces that she's calling the police because "I feel intimidated and I'm shaking".
 
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