Grim achievement: South Carolina ranked tops in male-on-female murders in 2011

COLUMBIA — South Carolinians are back at the top in a category no state wants to be number one in.

The number of women murdered by men.

In 2011, South Carolina had the highest male-on-female homicide rate.  The state saw sixty-one women killed by men in murders and massacres, and a homicide rate of 2.54 per 100,000 women.

However, not all of the women who were murdered by a man had relationships.  The 61 women who were slain also includes men who killed women in other situations, such as drug deals gone bad.

Ninety-three percent of the women killed by men knew their killer.  Included in this percentage are women who knew the men due to the aforementioned drug deals, as well as robbery and burglary.

Five in every eight women killed were murdered by a man they had a relationship with.  That includes three women from Wagener, all of whom were killed by Kenneth Meyers.  All of the posts about the Wagener Massacre can be seen in link.

These grim numbers compiled by the Violence Prevention Center (below) caught the attention of the South Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Violence.

“It is our hope that this report will be a call to action for the leadership of South Carolina and its citizens to recognize the seriousness of the problem in our state and begin to work collaboratively to find real solutions that improve the safety and lives of women in our state,” said Colleen Campbell Bozard, the interim chair of the state’s anti-sexual violence organization.

And for those who think that more guns would have helped, think about this and let it sink in for a moment: eight of the ten states that had the highest rate of male-on-female murders in 2011, including S.C., has had very loose gun laws predating 2011 by at least seven years.

[WIS News 10]

When Men Murder Women 2011 by mjbyars2002

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STOP TAGGING NUDITY (AND BREASTFEEDING) AS NSFW!

When I saw the link from CafeMom via the Nudism and Naturism Daily News, my eyes rolled and I was not happy.

The link was about breastfeeding being tagged as “Not Safe For Work”. When I read about Huffington Post tagging that as NSFW, that was the final straw and got me to write this post.

First and foremost, there is nothing not safe about nudity. Or, for that matter, breastfeeding. Both public nudity and breastfeeding have their benefits, and no major drawbacks.

Public nudity promotes a positive body image. Tagging nudity as “not safe for work”, as every blog and media outlet worldwide except for mine have done, is totally inappropriate and is extremely poor blogging etiquette. Not only that, but tagging nudity as NSFW also promotes a negative body image, which leads to untimely deaths for so many young people — especially young women and girls.

That, in the previous paragraph, is why I do not — and never will — tag nudity as Not Safe For Work.

Tagging breastfeeding as “not safe for work” is also harmful. Breastfeeding yields many positive ingredients to the babies, with minimal health risks. To tag breastfeeding as NFSW, as many blogs continue to do, only stigmatizes breastfeeding in a strikingly similar negative light as has been done with nudity. It also robs babies of much needed nutrients that they could have at out in the open.

There is nothing inappropriate about a man’s penis, a woman’s breast or vagina. Therefore, it is dead wrong to tag nudity as Not Safe For Work. It makes nudists and naturists feel that what they are doing is wrong or should be hidden, secret, not discussed. And it makes everyone else think that seeing a naked person in public is obscene, wrong, not normal, that it should be hidden, that nudity is a “dirty” X-rated act. That is why it is so wrong. Mainstream media should uphold a certain standard of values even if some of the readers may object. We shouldn’t bow to the few (or even the many) when the opinion that nudity is obscene is what is really wrong.

The same in the previous paragraph can be said in regards to breastfeeding and mothers who breastfeed.

It is time for the mainstream media of the world to stop tagging nudity and breastfeeding as “not safe for work”.

Benedict College student dies during childbirth due to “pro-life” laws

Benedict College student dies from childbirth

COLUMBIA — This is a prime example of what “pro-life” laws do: a 19-year-old Benedict college student has died during childbirth.

Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said the student, who was approximately 32 weeks pregnant, had a natural childbirth. Her body was found Tuesday night in her dormitory room. No one else shared the room.

The child was not alive at birth and given South Carolina’s history of prosecuting women for delivering dead babies, the student did not call 911.

The delivery happened during the weekend.

I’ve been saying this forever, and I’ll say it again now: South Carolina’s anti-choice laws directly contributed to the death of this very young woman.

If this state’s abortion laws were more like Oregon’s abortion laws, then this Benedict College student would have been alive, earning the credits towards her degree.

[WIS News 10]

[WLTX News 19]