Shawn Grate - The Typical Rape-Murder Criminal

I shall never be able to fully understand the male fascination with killing women they are sexually attracted to. In many murder cases it looks like revenge because of this unsettling fascination, but the logic of it escapes me. One of these murderers of women is Shawn Michael Grate who proved to be a serial killer. He raped and killed five young women, but was later found out to have killed at least five more. Two of these murders were classified as "aggravated" which makes it even more appropriate that he was sentenced to death, and the execution is scheduled to 2025. Sadly enough that will not bring the women back to life, but it will save others which in itself is a consolation.

Like in many other murder cases of men who also rape their victims one wonders at their main motive: Was it the forced sex or the killing that drove them the most? Both these crimes is based on POWER: The man see them as an opportunity to show off their physical strength and what they see as the their main sexual ability, namely bringing about a female submission that, to them, proves their own superciliousness. I don't think I've read about any rape-murder cases in which this combination wasn't the incentive. To me that's a very potent indication that men in a patriarchy are brought up with rather sick notions about themselves and what constitutes the build up of maleness. Actually, I'm more or less convinced that all these rape-murder cases - and there are MANY!!! - may be an important key to what's going on in the world of men as such. However, not many non-feminists want to see them as such which in itself is quite interesting .... 

As to Shawn Grate he grew up to become a charming an quite good-looking man whom the girls liked. That he in reality was a monster didn't they know. The only one who might have suspected it at an early age was his sister as the two of them often would fight. At that time he was consumed with rage at their Mom for leaving their father and her kids to live with another man. This childhood experience may have brought about mental traumas, but it can never be an excuse for what he did to other women. However, it's often brought up in discussions of rape-murder criminals which is quite unacceptable. I see the fact of something like that being used as an "excuse" or "explanation" as part of the general leniency toward this kind of criminals. Actually, that brings about the main problem in understanding what's going on as it sort of blind us to it. Instead of investigating the problem of all of these almost identical rapist-murderers from new angels it leads us to turning the other cheek, so to speak, and not dig as deep as we should.

According to his ex-wife he, typically enough, expected to be obeyed: A "no" was not acceptable to him, the male. In my opinion wanting proofs of female submission can never become a proof - or even indication - of a genuine male supremacy. To me the very need of something like that looks like a genuine proof of the opposite ....

Grate was caught when woman (called "Jane Doe") whom he had kidnapped and raped several times succeeded in escaping and calling the cops. That must have been like a blow to the center of his male pride, but more important than that: It put a stop to his terror ....

 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/shawn-grate 

 

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/living-with-a-serial-killer-where-serial-killer-shawn-grate-now 

 

https://www.the-sun.com/news/6643976/shawn-grate/ 

 

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/08/shawn-grate-survivor-escape/ 

 

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The Verdicts on Nazi Women

Irma Geese: No. 9

Somehow the crimes of Nazi women were not considered as grave as those of men. Many got away with a rap on the knockels after committing crimes that were as cruel and gruesome as those of the male culprits. One of the reasons for this was that there was a general misunderstanding about the true status of these women. Often they were seen as someones who were mislead by the men, not as anyone who did what they did because they - just as the men - believed in the propaganda of Der Führer. They were Nazis out of conviction and not by some kind of "mistake" or the wish to follow their menfolk, taking part in what we now know are heinous crimes. The image of the mild, charmingly naive and motherly "Hausfrau" who didn't dream of killing and torturing prisoners in death camps has cracked and is now shattered into fragments: They knew what they did and were as guilty as their fathers, brothers, husbands or sons. Some of these women proved to be monsters at the trials after the war.

One of those who obviously found it very difficult to see her torturing and killing female prisoners as crimes was the former overseer Gerda Steinhoff (center middle) who didn't even stifle her smiles at hearing witnesses telling about her Nazi "deeds". She was not in he least ashamed and I take it that the death sentence she received must have been a big surprise to her, but hanged she was. It's difficult to understand that many of these women - scum of the scum - were seen laughing and joking throughout the proceedings in 1946 where they should have been weeping at their own crimes.

Maria Mandl/Mandel was an Austrian kz-official who is believed to have played an active part in the deaths of more than 500,000 prisoners. She didn't get off the hook after the war, but was executed for war crimes. 

One of the most infamous one of these women definitely was Irma Geese. She was famous for treating the prisoners as "cattle" as one of the many cruelties she was reputed for was having (and probably ordering!!!) skin from the prisoners with interesting tats. Her belief in her own superiority both as a Nazi and as a woman must have been sky high. For instance, because she felt exceedingly beautiful she considered herself born to become a movie star after the war when she would gain fame and wealth for her so-called service to Hitler and his regime. When she received female prisoner who were good-looking she didn't take too kindly to that fact. Actually, she saw that as some kind of affront as it's well known that they didn't live for long in the camps she was working as an overseer.

 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/irma-grese 

 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/irma-grese 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64036465 

 

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Incel-Ignorance and Hatred

Being an incel means being an involuntarily celibate. We know them as young men who, seeing couples in public or just girls who exhibit no interest in them, get bitter and mad as Hell at the knowledge that they themselves seem invisible to women. The general complaint of the incels have formed into an endless stream of whimpers at being outside of what they see as the "normal life situation of a male", i.e. what they perceive as "natural": They feel cheated out of some kind of inborn "right" to obtain fulfillment by women which means that they also think these women owe them sex, love and all kinds of female support. 

John Ferguson Weir, American, 1841–1926

Both the woman of their loving dreams and their hateful fantacies were built by themselves as they have few bonds to the reality of today. It's obvious that much too many incels try to demean what they desire by feel they can't have by accusing women of their own vices, but also of being disgusting creatures. Some of these incels are so overflowing with bitterness and even hatred that they talk of violence, rape and murder as if that is their rightful revenge on the women who scorn them as sexual partners. I think the new trait in these outbursts is something more and more hateful against women and more and more outspoken, and it's my impression that this seemingly eternal flood of abuse was started with a special form of male bonding via the internet. They write to each other and are obviously trying to overdo each other in deragatory descriptions of women. Their mutual support intensify their negative feelings about what they want the most which builds up a sad dead end-situation.   

Right now I've seen more and more derogatory depictions of the female sex organ as such. To me it's obvious that these new founded accusations of a less than pleasant female odeur is a new approach to the male problem of unresposive females. They can't have those dream girls so now they claim that these same women "stink" in a very unpleasant manner. Obviously, incels have never met a real stinker: An unkempt penis with a stench of smegma, urine, etc..

https://www.reddit.com/r/NotHowGirlsWork/comments/11auvp1/comment/j9xji8x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 

 

https://msmagazine.com/2022/10/21/men-responsible-unwanted-pregnancies-gabrielle-blair/ 

 

http://jeremymohler.blog/5-ways-porn-conditions-men-to-have-worse-sex/ 

 

https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/gender-reveal-tiktok-fragile-masculinity 

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ron-jeremy-new-trial-date-rape-case-1265384/ 

 

incel - Den Store Danske - lex.dk

 

https://thoughtcatalog.com/lauren-skirvin/2019/02/when-are-the-men-with-peter-pan-syndrome-going-to-grow-up/

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/opinion/crisis-men-masculinity.html?unlocked_article_code=EH2QA5Z51bEfiIwxEEiv7Yw-Wfdiee-9NNwxQhJBN_KNPWA-10U0rH-8YoObRerDlAnuxO69-Po3w4320H9YlsaKp1OjZdjPIyghAmlX-qIJtlzL3v24RFWW-A7gRvB1p8iNqkFmb8qSaA8PaUAZL4b3AhIWzBSz-pNcY72Bz4NfQnljvq7ul31qX7HVAE7iisCqVxS4XbmsVyi5TZviBTHkCgH84b16cEqcdIt1lnsqcq5wASarqlW_ztvEVchfQ3bNsR2LxuCYDqKD9HnDONk1Lx_NbgTn0JMWrvcunV2LRhZISatjqUuLrG1INcYhF6PD-dVRVIzYuOnWrw7NQxg&smid=share-url 

 

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/08/20/nearly-half-of-u-s-

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/incel-threat-secret-service-report/

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/testso/nsfwtrigger_warning_this_is_an_article_listing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/incel-threat-secret-service-report/ 

 

https://screenshot-media.com/visual-cultures/toxic-masculinity/tiktok-trend-imaginary-date/ 

 

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/anti-abortion-anti-trans-anti-crt-bills-sweep-country-as-right-wing-accuses-democrats-of-trying-to-feminize-america-137997893936

 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/ohio-incel-hate-crime-guilty-kill-women-college 

 

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/56755/1/lonely-single-men-are-on-the-rise-psychology-today 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/20/involuntary-celibacy-incels-problem-right-to-sex-not-the-answer 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/30/global-incel-culture-terrorism-misogyny-violent-action-forums

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTear/

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-63603366 

 

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/312904#Sperm-does-not-rely-on-the-egg-to-be-reprogrammed 

 

https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fbul0000366 

 

https://www.bolde.com/man-children-are-killing-womens-sex-drives-new-study-reveals/ 

 

https://www.rawstory.com/new-study-identifies-two-main-factors-that-predispose-someone-to-incel-membership/ 

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/lost-boys-violent-narcissism-angry-young-men/672886/ 

 

https://www.psypost.org/2023/02/study-uncovers-a-particularly-alarming-link-between-mens-feelings-of-personal-deprivation-and-hostile-sexism-67296 

 

https://www.psypost.org/2023/02/study-uncovers-a-particularly-alarming-link-between-mens-feelings-of-personal-deprivation-and-hostile-sexism-67296

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/26/large-rise-in-men-referred-to-prevent-over-women-hating-incel-ideology 

 

https://pittnews.com/article/177904/opinions/opinion-how-masculinity-twists-the-minds-of-incels/ 

 

https://nypost.com/2023/02/23/6-out-of-10-young-men-are-single-disturbing-reasons-why/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons 

 

https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/11/involuntarily-celibate-men-are-trying-to-leave-toxic-online-spaces-but-dont-know-how-to-escape-10677202/ 

 

Abe of The Strange Bed Manners

I always admired the 16th president of The United States, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), for his politics as I find the very idea of slavery detestable. He defended America as a constitutional union and had an important part in securing the U.S. economy, and all of this made him one of the great presidents of his country. As he was born of a poor family I find even more to admire in him: "Self-made" men and women always speak to my sense of admiration. However, there are some traits from his private life that seem quite surprising to me, and one of them is his habit of sleeping with male friends. As it is during his youth and adulthood he slept in the same bed with eleven boys and men or even more. Was that normal at the time? Some historians say it was, whereas others see it as an indication of homosexuality. That may be, but we shouldn't forget the intense friendships of men with men and women with women at this time of history.

After all, Abe did get married to Mary Todd (1818–1882) - that is after two periods of being engaged to her - and they had four sons although, sadly enough, three of them died in infancy. As it is their marriage was reputed for its sexual overtones which indicate that they were genuinely physically attracted to each other. Then why did Lincoln chose to sleep with men who were more or less close male friends? These days some have suggested that he was a "closet LGBT"-guy, practizing homosexuality for several years. One of his closest friends and also bed fellows was Joshua Speed (1814-1882). Their friendship went far back and one may say that both of them were self-made men. There are letters that show their mutual concern for fulfilling the obligations of marriage and life in a society that harbor certain expectations to young males, but both of them married and had children.

However, be that as it may, it has been known that the Lincolns (most often) didn't sleep together in the same bed, but that he over the years shared his bed with several men. Was that common or was it very special for the Lincolns? Well, it seems that it may have been an English habit for a married couple not to share bed most of the time. Besides, poor Mary was afflicted with several ailments that might have made her want to sleep alone. Actually, at times she was committed to hospitals of various art and if she complained about the marital arraignments of her marriage I haven't found it. As for an explanation of the arraignment of the sleeping habits I think it may have something to do with childbearing: Maybe they practiced a crude form of planning, both to have a grip on the numbers of children and to spare Mary as she wasn't well.

She sat beside her husband when he was shot which must have been a very traumatic experience. Did people feel sorry for her? No, somehow she became quite unpopular and even today she isn't a woman whom the Americans take to. In my opinion she represents an enigma and I feel that we should know more about her and whom she really was before passing any judgements on her. Gossips may love the stories about her and her husband, but after all, it's none of our business until it proves of an historical interest that will make us wiser about this time period ....

 

https://www.therestorationmovement.com/_states/oklahoma/speer,ws.htm

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-abraham-lincolns-bromance-alter-course-american-history-180962203/

 

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The Abused Child Victim: Victoria Martens

 

What a smile! Yes, Victoria Martens was a lovely girl of 10, but she led a miserable life of abuse, rape and murder that doesn't fit with this photo of her pretty, smiling face. The most shocking part of it is that the one who forgot to protect the innocent girl and let others do all of this to her was her mother, Michelle Martens.

When her daughter's dead body was discovered Michelle denied having as much as known or even sensed what went on with the child, but later on in the interrogation by the police she admitted that not only knew she about the abuse, but she had also instigated it. Actually, she had accepted that several men came to the home of the family to rape and in many other ways abuse the child with her watching the crimes "because she liked to see it being done". The perverted actions that led to the death and dismemberment of Victoria lack any kind of normality but it all seems to start with Michelle.

 

These photos depict a beautiful girl of 10 and a depraved monster who took part in the killing and dismembering of her own child. One wonders at such a crime, also because the child begged to be left alone by the grown-ups who abused her to death: The boyfriend of her mother, Fabian Gonzales, and his cousin, Jessica Kelley.

After the murder Michelle had sex with Fabian, most likely watched by his cousin, Jessica Kelley. All in all a horror scenery with the dead child still in the flat, but none of the grown-ups seem to mind that. Actually, one gets the impression that their only regret was being caught and that none of them had any compassion for the girl who lost her life because of their sick games.

At the autopsy it was found that the child suffered from various sexually transmitted illnesses, which may have been from one of her killers, namely her mother's lover, Fabian.

 

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/albuquerque-metro/fabian-gonzales-found-guilty-on-all-charges/ 

 

https://viralnova.com/victoria-martens-murder/ 

 

https://www.elitedaily.com/news/mom-offered-daughter-men-online-rape-murder-fantasy/1747463 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4104776/Girl-10-raped-murdered-dismembered-mother-s-boyfriend-suffering-STD-died-showing-d-abused-before.html 

 

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The Vicarious Power of Women

 

Well, he is cute so of course he has his female fans. Hopefully he stays adorable even when he grows up. As we know that happens for some, but not all men. This man is a good example of that truth: Clark Gable. Obviously he, in his turn, adores being adored ....

As to the women then they may resent their fellow Gable-fans: They are rivals, but not necessarily for the sexual favor of this or other men in the meaning "bedded by him". No, what still is important to many women is the status that they obtain by being courted by men. Women have their own inner lists of social status that are based on the impact each of them make on men. That means that rivalry for status may not even be about the man as such, but about their ability to make him and others like him fall for their charms. It sounds crazy, but actually, it's quite logical in a Patriarchy where one sex is turned into a sex object: The female. To be good at being a sex object gives her the right status, primarily with her own group, namely other women. 

She may enjoy being adored by all of these men - whom she most/very likely - has no ideas of sleeping with, and she regrets when age or other circumstances put a stop to it. However, now most women know that that kind of sex symbol-adoration keeps them in a social situation that makes it difficult for them to do much about their true position in a Patriarchy: It, sort of, takes out the steam of their efforts to obtain a genuine, not sex-based career as they may be judged unfavorable by deeds that get men to the top of the ladder. (Actually, that also goes for deeds that make them succeed via the bed of rich and powerful men: In some respects women are "damned if you do, damned if you don't ....")

I bet she will turn some male heads and get some nasty comments by women, either to her face or to her back, as she in some ways give in to the Patriarchal ideas of women as "pure body" and thus nothing but a "sex doll". Theoretically she may be anything from a successful business woman, a politician with genuine power, a famous artist or writer, but her clothes signal that she is nothing of that kind: She is the plaything of men a toy. However that may be only men will be naive enough to think that all of this comes without thought and planning. As women will know that's far from it, and what's more, by turning herself into a plaything she may obtain the kind of power which is open to women in a Patriarchy: The influence on those in power, namely the men. The female vicarious power should not be shrugged at, but in my opinion more because it has its limits and it deludes women into believing that they are powerful, than anything else. Genuine power is something else:

 
   
 

Severed Heads And Those Who Want Them

The words "Bring me his head!" have a certain Biblical ring to them as they may get us to think of the beautiful Salomé revenging the insults of John the Baptist when he called her mother a "whore". The still quite famous Hebrew king Herod didn't want to execute the holy man, but watching the sexy dance of his Salomé made him forget his wish to protect John and instead give in to her when she demanded the head of the prophet as her reward for tickling his senses with her dance skills (Mark 6: 21-29 and Matthew 14: 6-11). 

The decapitaded head of the French king Louis XVI

Several royal individuals have lost their head when they lost the power that made them one of the "heads" of the state. That goes for e.g. two of the six queens of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. Sad stories of the trials of these two women depict them as innocent according to modern standards so maybe that's the reason why the ghost of Anne Boleyn, carrying her decapitated head, has been seen ever since her untimely death?   

Presumably the ghostly finger of Anne Boleyn as captured on camera

OK, the idea of Anne as a victim who may have got a new life after her death is at least funny or even thought-provoking, but what about her experience of the decapitation? I remember that the heinous French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru was very concerned to get to know for how LONG his severed head might experience the situation and whether it might be able to perceive his dead body. Well, that's not as far out as it may sound as scientists from New Zealand in 2013 took on an experiment of decapitating some rats, and they observed neural activities for 10-15 seconds after the decapitation .... 

Major General Horatio Gordon Robley

This fine (!!!) collection of what is severed heads of dead people are to be found in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, but i t stems from an European obsessions with this kind of "memoralia" from what was considered "primitive societies". Many of the heads of unfortunate people who met head hunters of various observations and nationality lost their life because of this uncanny obsession. Heads like these had been holy objects or just some kind of souvenirs of defeated enemies, but with the Christian invasions they turned into merchandise. Sadly enough that meant that many of them were "made to order": Some were hunted down, got killed and beheaded so that their head might bring in some money ....  

Shrunken heads which are known to the Indians who made them as "tsantsas" stem from an age old belief that shrinking the head of an enemy would make it impossible for his spirit to take revenge. Those who bought them most likely didn't believe in this ideology which in my opinion makes their obsession to get these heads even more uncanny. To them the heads were nothing but a macabre kind of souvenirs whereas they actually were vital parts of murdered peoples' corpses.

We still know the expression "Headhunting", but not in such an uncanny way as in former societies. To be hunted  down by a skillful head hunter may even be the dream of many modern people who want a career ....

 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/mokomokai

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3184015/Anne-Boleyn-s-ghost-captured-camera.html 

 

https://www.profilpartners.dk/en/companies/headhunting-search-and-selection-denmark/ 

 

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