Love on the Brain

me: im swearing off gemini men. i will not do that to myself again. 

me: *meets another gemini guy whos funny, smart, and charming*

me: 😍 ok but what if this time its different  😍

gemini man: *plays me* 

May 17, 2016, dawn, in KOREA

A 23-year-old woman was brutally murdered by a man whom she have never met before.

The reason he killed her is because he got ignored SOCIALLY.

He expressed his anger by killing an innocent woman randomly.

The point is that she was killed just because she is a FEMALE.

However, Korean media is not covering this crime seriously.

Because crimes similar to this happen frequently.

This is a serious female violence and a social problem.

“This is Gangnam, today. Gangnam is a bustling main street area in Seoul, South Korea, similar to Times Square in New York City. I grew up here. On the night of Tuesday, May 17, 2016, a 23-year-old woman was brutally stabbed to death with a 12-inch knife in a unisex bathroom. She had been enjoying a night out in Gangnam with her boyfriend and friends. The police arrested a 34-year-old man who confessed that he had been waiting inside the bathroom to kill any woman that walked in, because he hated women for ignoring him.

The mainstream media described this murder as a freak incident, a random killing committed by a deranged individual. Worse, many people blamed the woman for having been out drinking at night. Many others empathized with the murderer’s hurt feelings.

Feminists are naming this murder a femicide (woman killing/gender-based crime), one among too many. We recognize the connection between this woman’s murder and the murders of other women, more than a hundred women murdered by male partners every year in South Korea, hundreds of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada, hundreds more violently killed in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, women who lost their lives in the Montreal Massacre, and countless others on this planet, past, present, and future.

We will remember her death. We will fight back. We will not give up.”

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Outrageous, outrageous comments.

This isn’t the first time this has happened either. There was another murder in this area just a year ago. Women have always been blamed for existing for their own murders there.

There was also hastags created to divert attention from the man’s attitude “#bathroomgirl” to which Korean twitter reacted with “#gangnamMurderMAN” and “#isurvived” because it could have been anyone this guy murdered.

He had waited for over an hour at a woman’s bathroom with a knife, waiting for a woman to murder. She didn’t even know him.