‘Nice Guys’ SHOULD Finish Last 

On Tuesday 9^th of July, 3 women (Carol Hunt, 61, Hannah Hunt, 28, and Louise Hunt, 25) were found close to death in their home in Hertfordshire. Unfortunately, they did not survive.

The perpetrator of this vicious crime tied them up and shot them with a crossbow before fleeing their home, to be captured on the 11^th of July.

The perpetrator was Hannah Hunt’s ex-boyfriend.

Hannah did the right thing by leaving him at the sign of violence. He got revenge by murdering her, her sister and her mother.

This is the sad reality of many women/girls, cut down too soon by hateful men. The men aren’t crazy hooligans randomly attacking women on the streets. No! Most times the perpetrator is someone the woman/girl knows: a husband, boyfriend, friend, father, son, a guy she rejected earlier.

In 2023, 7 in 10 victims of domestic homicide were women (70%) and 3 in 10 were men (30%).[1]

Almost half (45%) of all adult female homicide victims were killed in a domestic homicide.[2]

Like Hannah, women do everything they can to avoid this. We try not to go home alone at night but we are still killed. We call our friends on the phone if we have to walk home alone but we’re still murdered. We turn guys down nicely but are still targeted. Even the women in the 1800s, who worked around men, wore chastity belts to stop men from harming and raping them.[3]

At this point, we need to examine the glaring common denominator in these instances. MEN

As a man you must be thinking, ‘what does this have to do with me? I’m not a murderous manic. I’m a nice guy!’ Such is the beginning of the issue. 

I know a guy raised by a strong woman alongside 3 capable sisters yet he confessed to seeing women/girls as objects in his youth. Things to accessorise men, to make men look better, to be used by men.

You don’t need to be a sociopath to murder a woman. You need to be a normal guy who feels entitled to a woman/ woman’s body. You need to be a normal guy who feels emasculated by women being above you in school, work etc. You need to be a bystander who sees your fellow man harassing a woman and looking away. You need to be a normal man who has a creepy friend that ‘basically harmless’.  You need to be a man who looks down on women as they will never amount to the strength of a man. You need to be a normal man who sees a woman’s worth in cooking and cleaning and her service to a man.

Femicide is real. And it starts by looking down on women for not being ‘men’. It starts by equating women’s success to finding a man. It starts the moment you see a woman as a threat or insult to your masculinity.

Kill your misogyny, it saves lives!

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

                                                                                                                                  -Margaret Atwood

[1] Homicide in England and Wales – Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

[2] Homicide in England and Wales – Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

[3] https://www.thedailybeast.com/from-the-anti-rape-bra-to-chastity-belts-how-women-use-clothing-for-protection