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1. A woman sent her friend a chilling message hours before her attacked three people with an axe.
Just hours before Evie Amati walked into a 7-Eleven store in Sydney’s inner west armed with the axe and with a knife in her back pocket, she sent a message to her friend, ABC reports. It read: “most people deserve to die, I hate people and one day I am going to kill a lot of people”.
Less than half an hour before, she reportedly shared another message to Facebook: “Humans are only able to destroy, to hate so that is what I shall do”.
Evie Amati, 26, who is currently on trial in a NSW District Court, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of wounding with intent to murder and one of attempting to wound a pedestrian with intent to murder.
Three alternative charges allege the intention was to cause grievous bodily harm in the attacks which took place in the early hours of January 7, 2017, at the store in Enmore.
The attacks are not in issue, but the jurors will have to consider Amati’s intent and whether a defence of mental illness can be made out.
Prosecutor Daniel McMahon referred to a Facebook message weeks before the attack when Amati quipped: “OMG I just destroyed an old couch with an axe, it was extremely satisfying” and that it had given her an idea.
Before store customer Benjamin Rimmer was attacked, he initially thought the weapon may have been a fancy-dress party prop.
“I wasn’t alarmed at first,” he told the court on Monday. “She stood very close to me and I remember having an ill-feeling something was not right.
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1. Hey MM, you really should clarify that the "woman" is actually a male identified transwoman. This is why it is problematic when transactivists claim "transwomen are women" because they're actually biological males, and she will now be reported in the media and crime stats as a female perpetrator and skew the results. Possibly giving the MRAs ammunition that women are just as violent as men (although I can't think of any woman who has acted in a similar fashion....ever).
It is also important to consider this crime in light of the fact that the perpetrator was REJECTED by a WOMAN and is using that as justification for the rage and uncontrolled homicidal violence he inflicted on innocent passersby. So we are simply back to the same old tired trope of male entitlement, particularly involving sexual access to women's bodies.
There is an insidious consequence of transactivism and "inclusive policies" and "gender equality" that is erasing lesbians (i.e. same-sex attracted biological females), and accusing them of transphobia and bigotry for excluding male identified transwomen in lesbian spaces and declining to engage in sexual or intimate relationships. This ax-wielding perpetrator is a prime example of this. Yet another typical example of violence inflicted by an angry, entitled, self-intoxicated, out-of-control biological male. We should be calling it out for what it is.
And where does this guy go in the prison system? In with the women? Putting them at risk while they are vulnerable?
She identifies as a female and according to reports has completed gender reassignment surgery. To suggest that a transgender does not exist in this day and age on a progressive site is at least unusual.
The defense I have read advanced in the media is that she was having mental issues/psychosis that incapacitated her judgment, not that she is a jilted lover justified in the violence that was inflicted by her. Whether the jury decides that she was indeed a jilted lover that was seeking revenge by hitting random men and women with an axe is something we will have to wait for the case to conclude.
Suggesting that no women has ever swung a weapon at someone meaning to hurt them is frankly a strange claim not supported by history. To suggest that this is thought of as normal behaviour to be carried out by anyone is also not supported by history.
That this will be forwarded as evidence by MRAs that women can be as violent as men may be possible but firstly; not many people listen to MRAs and secondly if their effort was to demonstrate that women can be violent, there are a number of sad cases they can refer as much more effective an argument than this sad event.
She is still a biological male.
The reports say she had been rejected sexually by a lesbian and that triggered her axe-rampage. Sounds like male entitlement to me.
I can’t think of any woman who took an axe after being rejected sexually by a man and started hacking at strangers minding their own business buying food in a store.
To be fair; if the jury does not find that she murdered on account of being jilted, I will not be able to bring to mind the name of anyone that was rejected sexually and started hacking at strangers minding their own business buying food in a store - it IS a pretty specific set of circumstance.
I would also like to know if this person is convicted will he be put in with female prisoners? Putting them at risk if they reject his unwanted sexual advances? There are ample examples of women now getting assaulted in prison from pre-op male identified trans women who have managed to succeed in being placed in women’s prisons - 48% of TIMs in the prison system in the UK are sexual offenders. This may just be one example, but expect to see more as the transactivist movement gains traction without consideration as to how prioritising the rights of men over the safety and security of biological women and girls.
Kevin Spacey is on of the best actors on the plant. He was once my favourite male actor and I can see why Robin said what she did about him. It is such a shame that this man ruined his own career with his disgusting actions, because the world lost a true craftsman of the profession. But, if things had gone the way they should have, he'd never of had a career to begin with, given he sexually assaulted adolescent boys. I hope this is a legacy of the #metoo movement: that abusers never get the chance to forge a career to begin with, no matter how talented they are. All the talent in the world cannot excuse ruining the lives of others.
I know! So disappointed to see certain actors and entertainers being outed as predators, its truly destroyed their creative legacy.