Detective called "patronising and sexist" for advising women not to walk alone through parks, days after a woman is stabbed to death walking alone through a park.

Sean Penn said it best.

"They could be a bit more cheerful."

It is true. The people who write for this paper, the people trawling Twitter for the next offensive thing, and a lot more need to be more cheerful. We're less racist, less bigoted, less impoverished, and have less war/crime than at any point in our history. That isn't because people on Twitter/tumblr are outraging at the next random that stumbles into their path. It is simply down to changing attitude in society as we slowly say, in a non-mob setting, that is no longer acceptable. Please stop.

Can't we at least be cheerful about that?

...what they do understand is the latch on subject matter..

That is exactly it. They put something said into a category where they can criticize it and suddenly it makes the paper, gets trending on Twitter, and they're a part of something for a small bit of time. To be fair, it is incredibly destructive, sets us back in terms of cooperation, and shows a modern mob mentality, but they are part of a social group for a short time.

As he says,

"have a lot of friends on Twitter.. for a minute".

followed by

"it gave them something to do."

The cop's words have given them something to do. In the face of an impossible tragedy, where a murderer still hasn't been caught, they are turning prevention language into victim blaming language.

Should we tell murderers that women aren't for murdering? I think that telling psychopaths, sociopaths, and the mentally whacked out that women aren't for murdering would do a lot. That sounds amazing.

Should we tell rapists who have already raped over and over and over and over that women aren't for raping? I think telling vicious monsters who, through rape kit evidence proving it, rape over and over and over. The idea of a man that rapes once may be true in some cases, but a frightening number of serial rapists are being found through those rape kits. If you want to fall back on telling men not to rape, let's start with the men who have raped 15 times to see how effective that language really is.

tl;dr We should remember the victim's family in all this. They should come first before a social justice point made using her murder.

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