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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.
oh they will. Murder/suicides always turn into a narrative of Good Bloke Done Wrong By Vicious Ex and Feminists and The System and Pushed To The Brink and all that other shit. Violent man was violent. There. That's your headline media.
I'd also like to see "child killer" in headlines. Theres a double standard where strangers who murder children are "child killers", but if the killer is the childs relative, they are "tragically driven to a tragic act what a tragedy." Oh yes & the women blaming bit too of course.
Unless the relative who kills the child/ren is their mother. Then they are described with all the most horrendous rhetoric
Sometimes. Cant help noticing the lack of media condemnation of the white foster mother who killed her Aboriginal foster child. It really does seem to be about the percieved social power of the victim. The less powerful the victim, the more sympathy for the killer.
There are a number of books that have been written about media and social reactions to a mother who kills her child. I wonder if the same reaction not arising re a foster mother is some weird “she’s not the mother.” Contrasted with the reaction to Dean Shillingsworth’s murder
Could be. Or could be racism. And classism. And Australias general disregard & dehumanisation of children in state care. 160 children died of suicide, neglect & murder in Vic Govt care over the past 5 years. That they publically admit to. No-one cares about those children.
Working with "resi unit kids" (i.e. kids who are so disruptive/far gone that they can't be placed in foster system and end up in residential units) was far and away the most depressing part of being a criminal defence lawyer in the community sector. Kids abandoned to their fate
often they had family who were willing to take them home, but were judged unfit for one reason or another. I often wondered what it would take to have DHS judged unfit, as I'm damn sure some of these kids would have been better in imperfect family homes than resi units.
Me too. I have never seen that normalising narrative when men are killed. Only women & children's murderers are good blokes. Especially if the victims were disabled or poor. It seems like the less power the dead had, the more understandable it was to kill them.
I have seen that narrative when disabled men are killed, several times a year--George Hodgens comes to mind. Most of the ones I can think of--Alex Spourdalakis, Issy Stapleton, Charles-Antoin Blais, Calista Springer, Zahra Baker, Melissa Stoddard, Daniel Corby--were kids though.
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