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Pakistani murder is a male shame killing ... Not an honour killing.

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I woke up this morning to the news that a gorgeous women,  an Instagram celebrity in Pakistan had been murdered in cold blood by her brother. 

The headlines screaming out about honour killings and so forth. 

So how about this, collective Bad-Ass women of the world, how about we collectively refuse to call these things Honour killings. 



It demeans and degrades the word Honour to do so, it implies that there is some kind of twisted honour in being a sociopath whose worth is determined by the behaviour of the property of your family. Girls are property in certain parts of the world let's not forget. 

How about we all call it what it is , a murder that's all about male shame. A great big shame for the family for harbouring and promoting murder. Shame for the family because they think women and females belong to them.  

Shame for the brother who right now looks sub-human to me, in my angry raging feminist tirade. 

Can we stop implying there is something good about murder by softening it with the word honour. 

My heart is broken for the mother of that gorgeous woman, who not only lost her courageous daughter, but must be mourning certainly for the man she raised to be a killer. 

It was a cold blooded murder, based on patriarchal bullshit, and male shame. Shame on the men in that family and shame on their community, which by all accounts appears to condones murder by harbouring the fugitive brother. 

It's high time women didn't pay the price for male shame. 
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  1. Ralph Carpenter31 October 2017 at 21:03

    hmmmmmmm

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