Um...
Okay, I post in a group called craftgrrl--kind of the LJ version of Ravelry, people upload pictures/descriptions of their current or most recent project and everyone shares the love. But this? This is just weird.
Admit it: he's the cutest little serial killer you've ever seen, isn't he? =)
Jack the Ripper eviscerated his victims--he literally tore them to pieces. Click on that link and scroll down to see how poor Mary Kelly ended up. (Whether or not it was just one murderer or several is immaterial for the purposes of this discussion.) And of course, OF COURSE, as fucking always, he targeted women. He literally slaughtered some of the most helpless, powerless members of Victorian society--women prostitutes--and multilated them in as insulting, misogynistic a manner as you can imagine. Two of them, Annie Chapman and Catherine Eddowes, had their respective uteruses cut out of them, for God's sake. Why is this something to be domesticized and made cute, complete with smiley faces? This really happened--these women really died, and it wasn't that long ago. We certainly do not live in a post-misogynistic society so how you can blithely laugh this off, I don't know. I understand the fascination with JtR but this--this is just disturbing.
This reminds me a little bit of how the Powers That Be in the '50s tried to normalize the Bomb through domesticization--they had a term for the smaller bombs, they called them "kitten bombs." *shudder*
Admit it: he's the cutest little serial killer you've ever seen, isn't he? =)
Jack the Ripper eviscerated his victims--he literally tore them to pieces. Click on that link and scroll down to see how poor Mary Kelly ended up. (Whether or not it was just one murderer or several is immaterial for the purposes of this discussion.) And of course, OF COURSE, as fucking always, he targeted women. He literally slaughtered some of the most helpless, powerless members of Victorian society--women prostitutes--and multilated them in as insulting, misogynistic a manner as you can imagine. Two of them, Annie Chapman and Catherine Eddowes, had their respective uteruses cut out of them, for God's sake. Why is this something to be domesticized and made cute, complete with smiley faces? This really happened--these women really died, and it wasn't that long ago. We certainly do not live in a post-misogynistic society so how you can blithely laugh this off, I don't know. I understand the fascination with JtR but this--this is just disturbing.
This reminds me a little bit of how the Powers That Be in the '50s tried to normalize the Bomb through domesticization--they had a term for the smaller bombs, they called them "kitten bombs." *shudder*