søndag den 13. august 2023

"Emasculation" of A Serial Killer

Even to talk of something like "emasculation" one must believe in a natural, "God-given" masculinity that somehow is quite different from the likewise natural and "God-given" femininity. In the 1600s when the word "emasculate" was coined it literally meant "castrate", i.e. not the soft medical castration of our times, but something much more extensive. Now we first and foremost use the word "emasculate" as a description of something psychological: According to psychologists - at least of former times - some/many women tend to "emasculate" the men in their lives, e.g. husbands, sons, etc. by not accepting their so-called femininity in a patriarchal society. For decades this female habit was seen as one of the many special, so-called crimes that mothers were accused of committing, maybe under the influence of what Freud called "penis-envy". Actually this is/was a weird and extremely self-revealing notion that tells a lot of those who coined it, but not much of the women who became the victims of it. 

This guy, the infamous Ted Bundy, may be the very incarnation of a serial killer. It is assumed that he at least killed 35 women who were strangers to him. Still he held a grudge against these female strangers and felt free to follow his instincts that were based upon weird sexual drives as well as a load of social frustration: All of the victims - except the last one, 12 year old Kimberly Leach - were free, pretty, young girls from a good social background, something which he resented as an affront to him, the illegitimate, maybe even incest-born child of an unmarried mother. The social standing of these women as well as their ability to move freely in society, i.e. living as they themselves wanted to, studying, driving cars, having lovers, etc., etc. felt like an "emasculation" and that was an important part of his reason for killing them. However, there is several other serial killers who operate from the same kind of "emasculation-insanity": One of the most notably ones is the Co-Ed Killer, Ed(-mund) Kemper (born 1948) who targeted the young, female students who exhibited their freedom not only by studying, but also by hitchhiking as they chose. As it is the term "Co-Ed" stands for a life style that makes it possible for young women to study at well-known universities, but primarily to "catch an appropriate husband who might give them a "career" as spoilt housewives". (However, I'm sure many of these women studied in earnest to make a career on their own, but many of Ed Kemper's contemporaries didn't believe that ....) 

Presumably Bundy had an IQ of 136 whereas Kemper scored 145 which means that although they committed stupid crimes from stupid sexist motives they weren't dumb in the ordinary meaning of that word. Both of them should have been able to understand that what they did to all those young women who actually were strangers to them, thus not having committed any crimes against these murderous men, was wrong on so many levels. Also they should have been able to question the concept of "masculinity" and "femininity", but they didn't even try which means that killing them was so natural to them that they most likely felt they acted from some inborn "right" as men.
 

At a height of 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m) Kemper was a giant. Everybody who met him commented on this fact and it may even have had an impact on his mother, Clarnell Elizabeth “Clara” Stage Strandberg, who was afraid that he, being a boy, might molest his sisters, i.e. rape them, when he was a teenager. That's the reason why she forced him, at the tender age of 8, to live in a room in the cellar behind locked doors. He hated her for it and at some point it was considered best for him to live with his paternal grandparents. At that time he had been been living with his father and his new wife for some time, but he made his stepmother feel uncomfortable by always staring at her so his grandparents were his only choice. It seems that he loved his grandfather, but not his grandmother whom he felt was "emasculating" him the same way his mother had done.

His grandmother, Maude Hughey Kemper, was a talented lady who wrote children's books and painted. On August 27, 1964, she was working on a short story for "Boy's Life Magazine" when her grandson shot her dead. Then he also shot his grandfather, presumably to prevent him from getting a shock at seeing his dead wife and getting to know that it was his grandson who had killed her. Ed's description of his "deed" was: "“ .... my senile grandfather” and “my grandmother who thought she had more balls than any man and was constantly emasculating me and my grandfather to prove it. I couldn’t please her .… It was like being in jail .… I became a walking time bomb and I finally blew .…”

To him this artistic grandmother just was another version of his mother, and it's as deep irony that he came to kill both because they in his opinion "emasculated" him. After serving part of his sentence for killing his grandparents his mother accepted him back in her house, maybe because she at that time felt lonely. She may have felt unsafe, but that didn't stop her from giving her opinion on some of what he did or was as a human being and at some point in 1973 he not only killed her, but did obscene things to her corpse, e.g. raping her severed head. All of which he seemed to think that she deserved for her obsession with the idea that he was a threat to his sisters, as he never seemed to have made any inappropriate advances towards them. Still, nobody deserved what happened to her, her parents-in-law, the 6 Co-Eds or her best friends whom he also killed.

https://www.sinisterisles.com/post/who-was-ed-kemper-mother-clarnell-stage 

 

http://edmundkemperstories.com/blog/author/edmund-kemper-stories/page/5/ 

 

https://medium.com/divine-magazine-detroit/emasculation-is-a-myth-e9f5661a627d 

 

https://www.frieze.com/article/return-serial-killer-how-psychosexual-male-panic-infecting-pop-culture 

 

Wikipedia

onsdag den 9. august 2023

Confusing Women With Pigs????

 

I shall never be able to understand HOW these serial killers who murder women like they were flies justify something like that TO THEMSELVES. For instance what about the Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton who, according to his own admission, killed 49 prostitutes and fed some of them to his pigs? Were these women so low in his estimate that he didn't feel they were human beings or was it his pride in his maleness that made him feel so superior to them that that in itself gave him the right to go where his urges told him to go? 


As Pickton himself confessed to murdering 49 women I find it very hard to understand that the verdict by the jury wasn't for first-degree murders, but only for second-degree murders. Why???? That means that he may be released from prison on parole after 25 years. To me that's grotesque!!! I fully agree with the judge who passed this sentence: "What happened to these victims was senseless and despicable." I take it that he would have sentenced Robert Pickton to prison for life if the jury had been up to their obligations to bring justice. Maybe they were confused with the social status of these women as prostitutes are not in high standard with many people. Something which is sad and unfair: The women are not the culprits, as that role is taken by the men who kill them ....

So there he sit, being housed and fed by the Canadian taxpayers. As some have suggested that one of the reasons why he did what he did was that his mother had forced him and his brother to work hard on the pig farm and even go to school without showering it's quite weird to see him sitting there, obviously not paying much attention to his hygiene ....

 

mandag den 31. juli 2023

Some Thoughts On Men And their Penis

 

This ancient corpse was found near The Black Sea where it had been buried in state. Not only was it furnished with what is considered the The World's Oldest gold, but this valuable material was used to adorn his manhood. One wonders whom it was who saw to it that this was done, was it him himself, a loving relative or some besotted lover? Well, no matter whom it was it's a proof of some special kind of manly status and respect that even followed the dead man into his grave. As it seems to take a man really to appreciate the male organ I feel that the one who saw to it that he was adorned this way was another man, most likely a lover.


In my opinion the most likely is that the gold adornment was chosen by a male lover, appreciating the penis of the dead man, but I, thinking from a Modern standpoint as I am, admit that I'm prejudiced. To me it would be more likely that a woman served the penis as a dish ....

or controlled it with an anti-rape device of some kind .... 

Many women are being swarmed with "Dick pics", but I doubt many swoon over them.

I wouldn't say that women NEVER appreciates "dickpics" or the "dick" itself, but most often I've had the impression that they see this male organ that is so beloved by men as a bit ridiculous. After all, it often is a sort of rival to the affections of the man: "Do you love me or your penis the most????" they may ask, probably without ever getting an honest answer.

It's my impression that most women see the penis as something more or less comical, the Joker of all the male body parts. The phallus cult always appealed more to men than to women, and why not? After all is the penis in a patriarchal society the main symbol of the male power, both in society as such or in their private lives. They may not be able to demasculise other men, but they may do a lot to have track of whom pees in the most impressive manner according to their own ideas of male grandeur.

In their need for affirmations some/many (?) have resorted to surgery: They want penis enlargements even though there are many sad stories about men who lose the ability to feel this quite vulnerable organ. Do they do it for women? That I doubt as a longer penis isn't what makes them tick. No, it's the mere or less public toilet and the eyes of their male counterparts that make them hazard their health with not all that safe surgery. After all, a penis is not only for adornments, but also for functionality. That may turn into a grave problem for some of those men who have resorted to surgical enlargements: A limp dick is not what they were after, but that was what they got. Not that they didn't know beforehand what might happen, but the dream of being one of the "big guys" enticed them into having surgery ....


https://theconversation.com/how-to-overcome-phallus-obsessed-toxic-masculinity-84388

 

https://metro.co.uk/2015/02/20/woman-tried-to-bite-boyfriends-penis-off-because-he-complained-she-was-too-needy-5072540/

 

https://www.politico.eu/article/viagra-viatris-us-vladimir-putin-hard-times-russia-steps-to-make-up-for-supplies/ 

 

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


https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2023/02/14/is-an-increase-in-penile-length-cause-for-concern/


https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21707-penile-fracture

 

https://jimhopper.com/topics/sexual-assault-and-the-brain/repeat-rape-by-college-men/


https://theconversation.com/how-prosthetic-penises-in-shows-like-hbos-minx-reinforce-existing-stereotypes-and-taboos-179084




lørdag den 22. juli 2023

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/ 

 

Wikipedia

 

 

lørdag den 15. juli 2023

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 

 

Wikipedia


mandag den 10. juli 2023

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/ 

 

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/ 

 


onsdag den 5. juli 2023

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/

 

Wikipedia