This is the opening of a longer essay tracing the sacrifice of women from the ancient Greeks to Jeffery Epstein and beyond. And discussing women’s roles as resisters, as bearers of life and bringers of food, from the ancient Greeks to the current interconnected ecofeminist and LGBT+ movements.
Early on I interpreted it as a symbol and hate crime. Sure, this woman was white, married two (presumably white) men, divorced one, stayed with the other until his untimely death (following the cultural paradigm of the dutiful wife), bore 3 children (“for the fatherland”), and even treated her murderer respectfully, but all of it was insufficient to fascists because she married a woman.
She was punished for the “crime” of “not quite liking dick enough”.
Early on I interpreted it as a symbol and hate crime. Sure, this woman was white, married two (presumably white) men, divorced one, stayed with the other until his untimely death (following the cultural paradigm of the dutiful wife), bore 3 children (“for the fatherland”), and even treated her murderer respectfully, but all of it was insufficient to fascists because she married a woman.
She was punished for the “crime” of “not quite liking dick enough”.