Sophie hits back at views on men in awful circus surrounding Sarah Everard’s murder
Now a friend of Sarah Edwards has spoken out about the disrespect in the UK towards Sarah’s death and her family.
Her friend said (see full report in link below) : “Her abduction and murder is not, in my opinion, a symptom of a sexist, dangerous society. When something awful like this happens there is a rush to look for reasons and apportion blame. If the suspect police officer in custody is eventually tried and found guilty of her murder, then I will hold him alone responsible. I will not be blaming ‘men’ or ‘the police’ for the actions of one individual. There will always be the odd psychopath out there – male or female – and there can be no accounting for that fact.”
The murder of Sarah, a 33-year-old marketing executive, has not been been treated with dignity and sorrow – it has become synonymous with law-breaking vigils, violent clashes and the demonisation of men by calling for a 6pm curfew.
A Government source said it would be a “massive curtailing of basic freedoms and rights” and would never work.
Caroline Nokes, Tory MP and chair of the Women and Equalities Committee said: “You can’t go around slapping curfews on one gender.”
Then Patrick Strudwick, former UK LGBT editor for the news website Buzzfeed, stuck his two-pennorth in and tweeted: “’It’s horribly telling that, so often, as soon as a woman realises you’re gay you can sense a reduction in hyper-vigilance. The threat level has fallen. U often find myself making my gayness very clear ASAP for this reason. I don’t know if straight men realise the extent of this.”
Here family and children’s campaigner Sophie David has responded: “In our a society we are constantly told to be ourselves, except if you are a heterosexual man.
Every other gender and preference is protected. But not straight men.
It is like a constant message drilled into a man’s head – they just aren’t good enough.
And we wonder why male suicide is so high.
Why should a normal man have to think to appease others?
Men shouldn’t have to skulk around, heads down, frightened to say a word to a woman because she might take it the wrong way!
Here is another way of looking at it: a woman would never emasculate a man to make herself feel better or safer. Dehumanising someone else for your own selfish needs is lower than low.
Sarah Everard was murdered by one sick individual and its awful but I’m sure that in her life she loved the men around her, father, family, friends.
One excuse of a man does NOT represent the whole of male society. We are living in truly despicable times when social media is giving people ridiculous ideas to spout, often to the detriment of basic human rights!
People are painfully selfish nowadays. I would never expect all men to avoid me so I feel ‘safe’. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
It’s up to me to take whatever precautions I feel necessary!”
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