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Yet another man has killed his children - John Edwards killed his 15-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter. He was involved in a custody dispute with their mother.
When will our society properly address #DFV as gender violence? This horror never ends http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-06/pennant-hills-shooting-of-teens-sydney-father-planned-attack/9947470?pfmredir=sm …
Murder-suicide, like other forms of domestic and family violence and intimate partner violence, is gendered. Men kill their kids & then die by suicide to hurt their partners. They do this because they ultimately see kids and women as their property & refuse to let them leave.
Police media conference also used a strange phrase over & over: the murdered children were his "natural children" & he was their "natural father." What is this supposed to mean? If it is meant to signal they're not his step kids - why would that matter? https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2034150309937941&id=125982670754724 …
Omg :( just awful!!
Such terrible violence born out of a sense of entitlement - tragic & terrifying.
When will #auspol start taking #domesticviolence seriously!
I guess he was a "good bloke" though...
I'm preemptively horrified about how this might be spun/ excused in the media.
This murder of children is definitely gendered- it is male violence based on entitlement. Regardless of motivation, the children are the victims. They aren't appendages of a relationship or weapons in a custody dispute but dead human beings. Hope the media will reflect this fact.
I'm also hoping the media doesn't do the usual damaging act of trying to 'normalise' him by posing him in an empathetic light. He is a murderer. He is a violent man who used violence because society excuses gender violence and allows this to keep happening.
Because it’s less than 1% of the male@population that does it. This is a personality disorder problem, not a gender one
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