Comparison Of Jack The Ripper And The Myth Of Male Violence
Jack the Ripper and the myth of male violence
From my point of view, the Ripper murders are extremely suspicious, for everything points out that it may have been something provoked on purpose in order to put women under control. According to this article, between 1870 and 1880, feminists were organizing political mobilizations against state regulation of prostitution in London. What resulted from those mobilizations was having respectable women talking in public about sexuality, proceeding to uncover men’s double lives, and their sexual diseases. By living in a patriarchal society, which for centuries has always been afraid of losing control over women, having these women talking about sexuality, and feeling free to transgress the narrow …show more content…
If Jack the Ripper had existed for real, the government may have uncovered the murders in order not to frighten the society, such as many governments do in the present time. Instead, it republished the anonymous letters in all the newspapers and posted them at street corners, and pretended doing the impossible to solve the mystery and find the murderer by interviewing infinite suspects. It is perverse to believe that the government during that time had something to do with the Whitechapel murders, but it would not be the first time a greater power would look to frighten their society in order to keep them under control. In this case, Jack the Ripper was a colossal success, not only women were publicly intimidated and threatened by their husbands at home by saying “I’ll Whitechapel you”, but also girls were tormented by boys by playing at Jack the Ripper. Some prostitutes left Whitechapel, others applied to the casual wards of the workhouse, and some kept working at night with fear of becoming the next. Finally, male night patrols in Whitechapel enforced the segregation of social space relegating women to the interior of their homes; everything resulting in the success of male sexual tyranny and
From my point of view, the Ripper murders are extremely suspicious, for everything points out that it may have been something provoked on purpose in order to put women under control. According to this article, between 1870 and 1880, feminists were organizing political mobilizations against state regulation of prostitution in London. What resulted from those mobilizations was having respectable women talking in public about sexuality, proceeding to uncover men’s double lives, and their sexual diseases. By living in a patriarchal society, which for centuries has always been afraid of losing control over women, having these women talking about sexuality, and feeling free to transgress the narrow …show more content…
If Jack the Ripper had existed for real, the government may have uncovered the murders in order not to frighten the society, such as many governments do in the present time. Instead, it republished the anonymous letters in all the newspapers and posted them at street corners, and pretended doing the impossible to solve the mystery and find the murderer by interviewing infinite suspects. It is perverse to believe that the government during that time had something to do with the Whitechapel murders, but it would not be the first time a greater power would look to frighten their society in order to keep them under control. In this case, Jack the Ripper was a colossal success, not only women were publicly intimidated and threatened by their husbands at home by saying “I’ll Whitechapel you”, but also girls were tormented by boys by playing at Jack the Ripper. Some prostitutes left Whitechapel, others applied to the casual wards of the workhouse, and some kept working at night with fear of becoming the next. Finally, male night patrols in Whitechapel enforced the segregation of social space relegating women to the interior of their homes; everything resulting in the success of male sexual tyranny and