The Importance of Men Seeing Women as Human Beings

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11. This is a continuum

I had a friend, A sex worker who was murdered by this guy;

Robert Christian Hansen (born February 15, 1939) is an American serial killer. Between 1980 and 1983, Hansen murdered between 17 and 21 women near Anchorage, Alaska. He was convicted in 1983 and is currently serving 461 years in Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward, Alaska.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hansen

Her name was Sue Luna, she is third on the Wiki list. She was a stripper, and had gone to Alaska in part to get away from an incredibly abusive husband--that charming kind who throws their wife out of the house injured and naked and doesn't let them back in.

This guy, literally saw women as animals to hunt.

On the other end, we have men who see women as objects to fuck, or to masturbate to, or to leer at, or to harass at work, or on the street----not in innocent fantasy, not in honest admiration, or even honest desire, but in a dehumanizing, women-as-a-collection of body parts, or entitled way.

It's part of the same continuum, and why people can't see this I'll never know. It shouldn't take the death of a friend, the horrific rape of a woman or a child to see-----its all connected.