Thread by @monaeltahawy

When I asked “How many rapists must we kill before men stop raping women?” on Australian TV, there was more outrage at hypothetical violence vs men than actual violence vs women.

Australian man killed his wife & 3 kids by setting them on fire and police are looking to excuse him

https://twitter.com/erincmca/status/1230508019630460929

WTAF: “Is this an issue of a woman suffering significant domestic violence and her and her children perishing at the hands of the husband, or is it an instance of a husband being driven too far by issues he’s suffered by certain circumstances into committing acts of this form?”

“How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill?" I asked and the TV episode was banned

For how much longer will men’s violence against women be tolerated and excused?

My IMAGINARY violence vs men so outraged viewers & network that the episode was banned from rebroadcast.

A man’s ACTUAL violence vs his wife and 3 children -HE SET THEM ON FIRE- has police looking for excuses & keeping an “open mind.”

Fuck the patriarchy

Rowan Baxter who killed his wife & 3 children by dousing them w/petrol & setting them alight had a history of domestic violence & was known to police.

A detective inspector said police would keep an “open mind” about his motives & wanted to speak to people who knew both families

“A calculated monster has killed a woman and her children in the most abhorrent way anyone could imagine. Even when the worst has occurred, they’re still questioning the woman, and still looking for reasons to justify this man’s behaviour,” Renee Eabes, victims’ advocate.

WHAT CENTURY IS AUSTRALIA LIVING IN?!

I will keep asking:

How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us?

How many rapists must we kill?

Fuck the patriarchy