Multiple women murdered in Atlanta

Atlanta is the 14th city in the USA for human trafficking on an industrial scale.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Georgia_(U.S._state)
Local law enforcement will not investigate this properly as it will likely lead to powerful people being involved, that's why they are focusing on race and not misogyny, shining a light on the hatred of women would mean explaining why so many women and children are being trafficked. Campaigners have written laws that legislatures have failed (ignored?) to pass.

I fear this kind of overt mass targeting of women is going to become a more frequent thing. It's like the serial killers of 70s and terroristic tactics of the noughties melded together somehow into a new kind of horror.

I only found this story after I went looking because someone I follow on Instagram had posted about it. It's horrendous.

And sympathy from the police?! Those poor women deserve justice, not someome pretending "she made him do it" is a sentiment anyone should be anything other than horrified by.

On the BM thread I've seen posters say that people are calling on black people to be better allies to Asian Americans. I'm absolutely astounded by that.

Murderer and offensive police officers are white, but sure let's look to the black community to fix this shit.

Quicker, sorry

These aren't the right kind of victims and I wonder if their families will want their details out there because of prejudice so this will be forgotten even yuck we than normal.

There's a thread on Black Mumsnetters about it too. But is it on the main boards or do only feminists and/or black women care?

Those poor women and some poor reporting. I struggled to find this on bbc news today.

hatred of women is surely worth a mention...

And yet no one has. It's very strange.

Have looked at BBC and answered my own question.

'Officials cannot yet confirm if the attack, in which six Asian women were killed, was racially motivated. Four victims were named on Wednesday.

The suspect faces multiple counts of murder as well as aggravated assault.

Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds said the suspect may have been a patron and claimed to have a "sex addiction".'

Well then. He killed women. Racism may well have been a motive but hatred of women is surely worth a mention...

Sorry NRTFT.

Saw on the news 2 day spas and a massage parlour.

I'm not American so I don't know. A massage parlour in the UK is a brothel.

Was this man targeting prostitutes of a certain ethnicity? Or maybe prostitutes and the ethnicity is over represented in that area?

Or a racist incel type?

Anyone know the answer on USA lingo re brothels?

The excuse boils down to "I killed them to stop me raping them".

It does, doesn't it? And they both involve believing women are things. Not humans.

This is a great example of women who 'aren't like us' so don't get protests. I really hope they do get protests.

I keep wondering if anyone will check if they were trafficked. I hope so but I doubt it.

Are any women over there out on the streets protesting about the killing of these women? Terrorism against women ... racist and misogynistic certainly. Great employment opportunities eh?

Years ago on the old GC reddit there was a woman from that area who posted some stuff vis a vis gangs staking out prostitution territories in a very violent manner with some links to newspaper articles about it. She either got booted at some point or pulled her stuff and left because I can't find her posts anymore, but Atlanta sounded like a grim place to be a prostitute.

An example of how men's violence is explained away.

It their victims had been men we wouldn't have heard this kind of justification.

I fear this is a heartbreaking example of where misogyny and racism are intertwined and the poor women who fell victim to this man will likely be denied proper justice because of it too.

I don't comment much, but I've read a few posts from black OPs over the last few days about the intersection of misogyny and racism that have really made me think. I feel like examples like these really highlight the points they have been making, particularly when you view the reporting of this incident in comparison to one with a different type of female victim. (I know they occurred in different countries but just the language used is stark, the lack of focus on the victims etc)

Ive probably explained myself poorly, but I hope you get my drift.

Weirdly, I can't seem to quote posts that contain quotes. I think this is from post #48:

Yes, the MMIW issue seems to be enormous, in the US and Canada. In the US there seem to be a lot of problems with the criminal men falling between jurisdictions, so justice is lacking to put it mildly.

Yes. The Major Crimes Act means that tribes don't have jurisdiction over certain serious crimes, including murder, that happen on their lands and to their people, and the FBI are too racist and misogynist to prioritise investigating murders and missing person cases when the victim is an indigenous woman.

One might argue that weregeld is an inadequate sentence for murder, but surely an investigation leading to a conviction and weregeld is better than no investigation at all? The tribes can't even investigate to protect their own women, how is this not racism codified into law?

Interesting twist in that article downplaying racial aspect and totally ignoring hatred of women by changing emphasis to his hatred of his own sex addiction.

In order to consider Asian women a temptation, one must first exoticise and dehumanise them for being Asian and female. It's misogynoir, plain and simple.

As a Christian man, if he actually hated his own sex addiction and attempts at therapy had failed, surely he'd cut his penis off instead of killing others? Matthew 18:8 and 18:29 and Mark 9:43 would indicate so. This is not the action of a Christian man struggling with an addiction, it is the action of a racist misogynist.

It's just the the arseholes who harass women wearing veils in the street. Even if you're stupid enough to think 3.4 billion muslims are a threat to you, the people who are pretty much never going to be are the women. But yeah, harass them because it's easier.

This time last year a cleaner at work who is Philippino was badly physically attacked on the way home. Racially motivated, linked to Cv.

I suspect she was set upon also as she was female.