angry, angry

If there is one thing that makes me angry in this world, it is hearing about women and girls who are sexually assaulted and raped. I just read on CBC’s web page that Corrine (Punky) Gustavson, who was murdered in 1992 was raped so severely that she would have died from bleeding before she was smothered by her murderer. This is truly unbelievable. Apparently this man was so messed up that the fact that she was literally bleeding to death while he raped her was a turn-on or he didn’t even notice. I have a hard time trying to understand the man who did this and although I am usually not an “eye for an eye” kind of person, hearing about things like this makes me strongly wish he would be castrated so he can never do it again. I can’t even imagine what it must have been like for her mother to hear this testemony in court.

I also recently heard that in Tokyo, there are now women-only train cars since there were over 2000 reported sexual assaults and gropings in the Tokyo metro in 2001 alone. The whole world has also heard about the rape and torture of Zahra Kazemi.

I am angry that women are always victimized like this. As if torture and beating were not enough, those who prey on women seem to take cruelty to a new level by degrading and hurting women and girls lin this way – indeed, nothing is too far to them. I can’t understand the mindset of someone who walks on this earth and thinks they have the right to use and abuse the body of whomever they see. I wish there was some way women could defend themselves against this kind of attack, but physically we are generally weaker than our attackers, and if attacked by a group, we really can do nothing.

I also heard that Carla Homolka is getting out of prison soon, and guess where she is planning to move? NDG in Montreal. So I will be living in the same neighbourhood as a convicted, unrehabilitiated sex killer. It makes me have second thoughts about staying in this neighbourhood and having a family here!

I have really tried to think of ways I can get involved in helping to prevent this, yet I have not come up with any good solutions since it is almost impossible to know someone will do this before they actually do it. This too makes me angry.

I just want all the guys I know that I am very glad that you are such great people who treat women with respect and abhor these events as much as I do. The world needs more people like you.

I think it will take a while before I can get over hearing about what happened to Corrine.