The problem is, maybe I did so myself. Carelessly, going along with the flow, picking up cues from the media.
The SLUTTING of Lenora Frago in death, even though she billed herself as an escort on Craigslist:
It’s a classic example of blaming the victim. Gilbert’s attorneys portrayed escort Lenora Frago, 23, as a fraud who took Gilbert’s money for a 30-minute visit on Christmas Eve 2009, then left early without fulfilling his illegal solicitation for sex.
When the dissatisfied buyer fired toward her pimp’s car in the parking lot, Frago was struck by bullet fragments. She lay paralyzed for seven months before dying.
One of Gilbert’s defense lawyers, Bobby Barrera of San Antonio, told KSAT that Gilbert was entitled to shoot Frago because she was “stealing.”
Her
pimp's car. How do we know she was walking toward her
pimp's car? The identity of the other person is never revealed, nor do we know why he or she, (we don't even have a gender), was there or what his (or her) role was.
The author, Bud Kennedy, of the newsclip says "pimp".
The ambiguity of the term "escort", especially when the escort is female, or if she is a woman of color or Hispanic?
The inability of females, women, girls, to determine their own identity, their own labeling in a culture of hatred of women, a culture of rape -- and racism.
Even if she was a prostitute, don't prostitutes deserve justice, don't they deserve not to be murdered?
Unfortunately, in our culture, prostitutes are a hated class, subject to violence and other sorts of abuse.
Cued in by the violent religions of righteousness we practice, witness the Green River killer in Washington State, devoted Christian, who considered it his righteous God-given prerogative to rid the world of prostitutes, body count: 49.
Or, how about the "West Mesa" murderer:
The West Mesa Murders refer to the remains of 11 women found buried in 2009 in the desert on the West Mesa of Albuquerque, New Mexico. No suspects have been identified in the case and a serial killer is believed to be responsible.
On February 2, 2009, a woman walking a dog found a human bone on the West Mesa of Albuquerque, New Mexico metropolitan area, and reported it to police. As a result of the subsequent police investigation, authorities discovered the remains of 11 women and a fetus buried in the area. All the women were young; most were Hispanic, and most were involved with drugs and prostitution.
Police suspect that the bodies were all buried by the same person or persons, and may be the work of a serial killer sometimes referred to as the West Mesa Bone Collector. Authorities also believe that the murders are closely linked to the annual state fair, which attracts large numbers of prostitutes to the area in the fall.
This sucks.
Majorly.
And, it has to end.