everymorning: i think im about to die. i think im going to die. im actually going to die. this is it. im going to die. im going to die immediately.

Links for the previously mentioned articles about Lake Mungo (2008):

In this regard, although a man’s abusive behavior is often explained by labels such as bad, evil, and monster, male violence is still normalized to some extent within mainstream depictions of masculinities. For instance, when it becomes known that a father or stepfather has sexually abused his child, although a social outrage may be expressed toward the act, as a society, we often are not entirely surprised by the act itself. Yet when a mother or female caregiver commits acts of violence toward her daughter, we are left with no socially acknowledged place to put this behavior because maternal sexual abuse completely defies our logic concerning femininity and motherhood. To this end, a man is construed as bad or evil because he violated a criminal act; however, a woman is labeled bad or evil or explained as mad or victim because she violated the social constructions of her gender.