Facebook nonsense has just wound me right up

What a pile of bilge!

Your colleagues are (a) sexist skidmarks for thinking this is worth sharing and (b) gullible pillocks for thinking that this is in any way true!

Block them with pride. (Possibly post "cool story, bro" on their wall before you do so - this will hurt them far more than pointing out their obvious and glaring misogyny.)

What a load of shite.

Also unlikely to be true tbh.

You could say you'd like to read more about it and what's the name of the prisoner, then wait and see..

Sadly, internalised misogyny is a thing.

The sensible choice is good, though... they are colleagues, and your workplace probably has policies about social media use. Blocking is the way forward.

(Remember the old adage: arguing with an online troll is like wrestling with a pig - you both end up covered in shit, but the pig enjoys it.)

Load of shite.
I would seriously question the intelligence of anyone who shared that!

Clearly made up.

And Dad gets off scot free!

I'd be tempted to post disingenuously: "Thanks very much for sharing this glaring faked example of misogyny. Good to call this stuff out when we see it."

Thats a complete load of bollocks

Do they think its true?

Things that didnt happen..

Doesn't have the ring of veracity, does it?

I assume they are suggesting that his dying wish was for this missive to be passed to his mother and she, after a lifetime of silence, made it public.

Whoever created it thought that the mother was solely responsible for disciplining the child (very weak bit part from Dad there.)

Yeah, right.

You did well to resist posting 'LOL.'

Is there a way of refuting it, and then casually commenting "oh, has it not come out that this is fake?" with a link. Passive aggressive, sure.

There is a similar letter on Snopes.com
www.snopes.com/fact-check/letter-death-row-inmate/

Yep, always check Snopes.com for this stuff. My mum (75) complains I lose her all her friends on Facebook by ‘embarrassing her’ with ‘that website’

If truth hurts, then call me satisfied. Posting (and reposting) harmful claptrap is the bane of my existence.

I don't do it very often but once in a while I will respond with a 'If I'm not mistaken this article was debunked (provide link) just in case you want to double-check.'

And some people do quite a nice 'ooops, should have checked, etc.' and take it down.

I would just commiserate with them, saying if that's how they feel their life must be one long drudgery as by their logic women not only have to lead their own life by lead other's for them.

This is the same male blame game of "she made me do it" that men say about rape, domestic violence, etc., etc..

And in this particular "story" the obvious question is where was the father? Why isn't he to blame.

The worse thing is that there are still a lot of women that think like this. Men / boys all have a "good" reason for not being able to behave like responsible adults. It is one of the reasons in rape trials the prosecutors dread women being on the jury.

Classic male privilege, which men assume without thinking, and too many women prop up.

And is of course a fake to just try and make women feel guilty.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/letter-death-row-inmate/

I would also say that this sounds exactly like the kind of pathetic excuse a true criminal would give for his actions--instead of taking any responsibility for the vicious acts he freely committed with his own hands, which he shows in this very letter that he knows are wrong--he blames his mother. If he didn't like the way she raised him, why didn't he take his adult free will and do something better? Otherwise, why should he blame her--maybe she raised him the way she did because of the way her parents raised HER.

Very misogynist and depressing that they’re dim enough to believe this actually happened. Aside from anything else, America (where they have death row) uses the spelling mom, not mum.

Quite apart from how shitty and misogynistic it is, surely if he's not responsible for his actions because his mother should have raised him better then the mother isn't responsible either, her mother should have raised her better and so on and so on? He'd better get writing to Eve then but I think she's already had some flack for being responsible for a man's actions

So your colleagues are in favor of corporal punishment if children? K

Absolute and complete bollocks.

Also, fwiw, evidence has comprehensively shown that violence is really not the best way to raise a child. So the idea that parents should beat a child in order to make it behave well is tosh through and through.

You may borrow this.

I'd be tempted to post disingenuously: "Thanks very much for sharing this glaring faked example of misogyny. Good to call this stuff out when we see it."

[applauds]

I know the Bible can be used to justify literally anything but this kind of proof-texting makes me so mad!