The other reason he hadn’t killed her, he told The Accused Inmate, was because it was not “manly” to kill a woman. Even in the “hierarchy of machismo of cases” in jail, murder is high, but the murder of a woman is low. This is revealing. We are seen as weak, and it isn’t manly to kill the weak. We are seen as inferior, too inferior to bother murdering and facing the consequences. We are seen as possessions, and it is not acceptable to destroy another man’s or even your own possession.
