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I would like to dedicate this edition of Adventures in The Patriarchy™ to the king of patriarchs, Jesus Christ.
He Is Risen.
Happy Easter.
Lord, please forgive, as you forgive all of us mortal sinners, the intersectional feminists, for they know not what they do.
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
-H. L. Mencken
Woman sets friend on fire for misogynistic joke, pleads PTSD to avoid jail
This week in “Modern Woman avoiding personal responsibility for the consequences of her actions at all costs,” a young lady in the Land Down Under set her childhood friend on fire as retribution for jokingly telling her to get in the kitchen and make scones
She now pleads through her lawyers that she should be let out of jail early because the incident — in which, again, she set someone else on fire — left her scarred.
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Via Daily Mail (emphasis added):
A woman who set her childhood friend on fire says the judge who put her behind bars should have been more lenient because of a mental illness she developed as a result of her crime.
Corbie Walpole claimed Jake Loader made misogynistic comments to her before she poured five litres of petrol over his head and used a cigarette lighter to turn him into a human torch…
Walpole snapped when Mr Loader said she should be in the kitchen baking scones, rather than out drinking with boys. Walpole had a can of Hard Solo in her hand when she erupted.
'He told me to go to the kitchen where I belong because I'm a girl,' she said. 'I gave it back to him and called him a misogynist.'
Walpole got up from an outdoor table and went to her garage where she collected a five-litre jerry can of fuel, returned to the table, poured petrol over the seated Mr Loader and waved a cigarette lighter around…
'I'll do it,' Walpole said. 'I'll do it.'
Mr Loader replied: 'Go on, do it.'
Walpole carried out the threat and Mr Loader was immediately engulfed in flames.
Mr Loader, who ran around the yard screaming, tried to pull off his shirt but the melted fabric stuck to his skin.
Walpole held her head in her hands and said: 'What the f*** have I done? He was telling me to do it.'*
Mr Loader was taken by ambulance to Albury Hospital then flown to The Alfred in Melbourne where he spent eight days in a coma, 74 days in the burns unit, and underwent 10 operations.
*It’s truly remarkable how fast Modern Woman loses the façade of “empowered, brave and stunning girlboss” in the context of decisions they made that led to devastating consequences.
Her defense is as if to say: “He told me to set him on fire after I poured gasoline on his head and waved the lighter in front of his face! A man gave me an order and I was obliged as a submissive woman to follow it — the central commandment of The Patriarchy™. What choice did I have?”
Somehow, of course, she had the power to say “no” when he told her — again, jokingly, by her own admission — to get in the kitchen and bake scones.
Yet all of that defiant agency somehow went out the window when it came to him telling her to set him on fire.
Blameless!
