This woman, who has the surname as the first British PM (not sure if I’m allowed to say names on this sub, but this story was in the news, if you want me to remove the hint to her name, I’m happy to) doused her childhood “friend” in gasoline and burned over half of his body because he made a mildly misogynistic kitchen joke. She never expressed true remorse or tried to make amends, she just spouted some PR platitudes and tried to make an “under the influence” excuse. Personally, I think life without parole would be lenient given what she did.

I’m Irish, and I’ve had people tell famine jokes to me before (referencing a genocide that killed 1/5 of my people), and while I didn’t like it, I would have never done something like this to them. It’s never okay to harm someone because they hurt your feelings.

I also saw feminists on X cheering for her. A tweet praising her and mocking him got hundreds of thousands of likes, and all of the top responses were women praising her (with lots of likes) and men saying that being offended doesn’t justify setting someone on fire (with far fewer likes).

It also bothers me that many (I’m explicitly clarifying that it’s not most or all) women are oblivious (I suspect intentionally so) to female privilege in modern western society. While I acknowledge that it is unfair for a random woman to be mistreated by a man (she may be one of the women who does respect men), male resentment against women makes a lot of sense: they are legally and socially privileged over men in the West, yet many (I’m explicitly clarifying that it’s not most or all) of them act like they are an oppressed/marginalized group. That said, everyone is an individual, and I do not endorse men being mean to women for being female.