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Sharon J. Hall, Editor, M.S. Ed., Library Science and English is the Library Media Specialist at Ridgeway Middle School, Memphis, Tennessee. She lives in Holly. Ridgeway Middle School Anthology: Changes is a collection of students' writings completed during the school year at Ridgeway Middle School.
What's worse, Ridgway had the sheer gall to admit having "dated" Guay and even choking her. But by then, Guay no longer wanted to pursue charges. She became the only known survivor of the Green River Killer. Perhaps she was afraid of being hunted down, or perhaps she just knew that she wouldn't be believed. And in this way, Ridgway was allowed to return to his life, killing many dozens more young women along the way.
Although Ridgway copped to 48 murders, he says it's possible he killed as many as 60 women and girls. I killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight. And in some ways, he was right. The victimization of prostitutes--a rampant phenomenon across North America--occurs as frequently as it does because so few people do care, and because prostitutes themselves are so afraid to report the abuse.
A report by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women found that nearly 90 percent of prostitutes in the U.
And one-half of women in this study described frequent, sometimes daily assaults. To progressives, prostitutes are alternately viewed as victims in need of rescue and rehabilitation, or else as sex workers who have the right to decide their form of livelihood. The truth, it seems, lies somewhere in the middle--in allowing women to pursue their occupation of choice but recognizing that many prostitutes especially street workers have faced terrible abuse as children and teens, and need a hand to help them out of a life they've become trapped in.
The decriminalization of prostitution would go a long way toward giving women more incentive to report suspicious behavior and violence by lessening their fear of arrest or poor treatment by police. But in this perversely moralistic culture--where skin and sexuality sell product, but skin and sex themselves cannot be for sale--prostitution is still the dark secret in our midst. And prostitution, in turn, has become a lightning rod for society's collective hatred of women who "abandon" their families and their children; who fall from grace and descend into "degrading" behavior.
Women who consciously choose to sell sex -- to get by, to get a fix, to pay rent, to feed a kid, or to even to go to school--are human beings whose existences we'd rather not deal with or see walking down our streets. As a society, we still see prostitution as an infestation to be kept under control. Words like "eradication" used in tandem with street prostitution are not uncommon in law enforcement lingo, as if the women selling their bodies are no better than vermin. If we are not willing to consider how and why a man like Ridgway can come to exist and commit his crimes for years on end, we haven't even begun to dig deeply enough into the dark core at the root of this kind of hatred.
He was created right here in our society. Talvi is a freelance writer based in Seattle. Her work appears in the new anthology, "Prison Nation" Routledge, When subscribing to a newsletter edition you'll also get early notice on Tyee events, news, promotions, partner messages and special initiatives.
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The answer, in great part, lies in Ridgway's own admission of who he preyed upon.
Ridgway saw these women and wanted them dead. Perhaps Nancy Gabbert, the mother of year-old Ridgway victim Sandra, said it best. She deserves a real answer. Send this article to: Would you like to receive The Tyee's headlines free by email? Yes, once a week. Yes, once a week, national news only.
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Perhaps Nancy Gabbert, the mother of year-old Ridgway victim Sandra, said it best. The Amateur Poacher in particular is regarded as a major advance on the earlier works, the first in which he approaches the autobiographical subject matter that is behind his best works. The prose style is unusual, too, coming from an Irish novelist. James Jefferies had the farm from his father, John Jefferies, who had been a London printer before returning to Swindon to run the family mill and bakery. But it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher and Round About a Great Estate , that has drawn most admirers. John Richard Jefferies 6 November — 14 August was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels.
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