Woman killed for rejecting proposal on chat show
Woman killed after rejecting TV marriage proposal - Guardian Unlimited
This is a story about a woman who was murdered in Spain after rejecting a marriage proposal from her violent partner, delivered on a TV chat show which sounds a lot like the Springer, Trisha or Sally Jessy genre. Apparently they did not check up on his background because they have privacy rules and they don't do such investigations. It's not the first time someone has died as a result of something they told someone on a show like this - I recall reading of a man who revealed that he had a crush on his male neighbour, and was shot dead by him a few days later.
Why do people go on these shows? Surely the format is so old now that if someone invites you on, you already know that something is seriously wrong in your family and you really don't want to wait until you are in front of an audience to hear it. It makes me wonder how many of the guests are authentic - the stories they come out with are of such self-destructive stupidity that they make you scream at the TV - but if it's a life or death situation, perhaps faking them would be better than getting people to scream at each other for public entertainment and then play the social worker or counsellor.
Comments
Sounds like an honor killing to me.
Posted by: DrM | November 23, 2007 12:47 AM
No, it was a crime of passion. Crimes of passion and honour killings are both fundamentally crimes of misogyny, but are products of their respective cultures.
Westerners are more individualistic, while Middle Easterners are more clan-centric (for obvious reasons - in the scorching Arabian desert a lone man is a dead man).
Posted by: George Carty
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November 23, 2007 9:03 PM
It all sounds the same to me, George.
Posted by: DrM | November 25, 2007 11:02 AM
A crime of paasion is when you feel personally insulted. A crime of honour is when your people- however defined- are insulted or rejected. The victim crime of passion is usually someone who doesn't want to become associated with the killer. The vicxtim of a crime of honour is usually asssociated with the killer already as family members.
Posted by: Thersites | November 26, 2007 10:37 AM