Monthly Archives: September 2016
There is Blood on your Aware Hands
Austin Anderson was murdered by his mother last week.
If you want to read an article that paints a pretty, sad, objectifying picture of the events and poises his mother as sad and repentant (while Austin is just a dead invalid), here you go.
If you don’t want to read that article (you don’t), I’ll give you the important cliffnotes.
- Austin was left in a field by his mother to become dehydrated and suffer from deprivation of critical medication.
Now for my comments:
- This is terrible and cruel
- This is not unusual
- The coverage of Austin as a burdensome, helpless dependant is not unusual
Now give me a moment. This is hard. This is hard.
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Okay.
THIS IS NOT UNUSUAL. Let me put those words in huge, non-blinking lights for a moment. Let me cleanly excavate, actually, all of the things that are not unusual about this:
- An…
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