Happy Mother's Day: Casey Anthony as the Fully-Realized Post-Modern Woman

79johnsmith · 2020-05-10T13:55:13+00:00

Casey couldn’t give up the decisively post-modern college girl lifestyle of bingeing on drugs, alcohol, and promiscuity to the point where she murdered her own daughter when faced with motherly responsibility.

She killed to party.

The media coverage would have tried to convince you that Casey was an anomaly worthy of social crucifixion, that her story may have been filled with sound and fury but it ultimately signified nothing; Casey was merely a bad apple.

But what if Casey Anthony exemplified the first fully-realized post-modern woman; a woman so determined to break the shackles of civic duty, gender rigidity, and social expectation that she violently rebelled against the system… Yes, there was blood, but this is rebellion; this was a Feminist statement, and in ten-years young girls may look back at the courageous Casey Anthony as a forerunner of after-birth abortion (toddlercide?)… after all, she didn’t feel like being a mother anymore so she changed her mind; she wasn’t happy.

Casey Anthony’s story is symptomatic of a broken society. A culture which has cast aside duty and responsibility, replacing it with petty pleasure and obsessive narcissism. Individual experience over collective prosperity. And even if the average woman isn’t going to murder a child to preserve her college girl lifestyle, certainly meaning has been lost in a culture that only teaches consumption.

Title	Happy Mother's Day: Casey Anthony as the Fully-Realized Post-Modern Woman
Author	LastRevision
Upvotes	2
Comments	2
Date	May 10, 2020 1:17 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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