Really holding back . . .

[liamstliam]

I am rather upset with various aspects of the SCA Board of Directors' latest attempt to ask about membership issues and "pay-for-play."

On a variety of levels.

Then there's the whole stupid stereotyping issue that was bouncing around the SCA LJ.

I am also upset that the garage that inspected the truck did some unexpected work on the brake lines (because they were leaking), and now I basically have no breaks.

I am also getting really depressed with these stories about fathers killing their kids (or men killing their girlfriends' babies).

I started a screaming rant earlier, but abandoned it.

I learned a long time ago that I should not let SCA issues bug me, but I hate it when peopel don't get it.

I also need to know worry about people's individual comments, but stereotyping really bothers me.

The truck, well, I already called them and told them alethea_eastrid would bring it to them in the morning so they could fix it. I was polite when I left the message.

There's not much I can do about evil in the world.

OK, I think I feel a little better.

Comments

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

That's an excellent point.

What drew me to the cases I am referring to was mostly the fact that it was multiple kids -- four today, two on Sunday.

I was originally going to reference the articles. There's also one up where the boyfriend killed the girlfriend's daughter.

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

Family annihilators, or simple child murder?

Suicide increases around the holidays; I wouldn't be surprised to find that child murder does as well.

[beckishadow.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, one of the biggest risk factors for women to be murdered it to be pregnant or to have recently given birth.

It's depressing.

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

Yes, and this is not just a function of the recent trend toward "eighth month" type murders with acquisition of the infant as a goal. Most murdered pregnant women are killed by their partner.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

Yesterday's threw four kids off a bridge after a fight with his wife.

Sunday's killed two of four stepchildren.

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I would be willing to bet there is a linkage to the holidays in the first one. In times of stress, people do irrational things.

Also, I believe the stress our culture is currently under makes a huge difference--I have read a couple of studies that indicate that in times of societal stress people abandon/kill infants more often; I suspect the same is true of child murder, that it happens more often when the emotional climate is tense.