The link in the title is scary.
Very, very, VERY, scary. If you have ever read Miss Nomered's "And a big hearty 'fuck you' goes to..." then you'll know why.
The very first page is comprised of not one, but two hauntingly serene pictures of Holly Jones, a Torontonian youngster that was abducted in 2003. Nothing really makes Miss N's opinion more validated than that. According to everyone that knew Holly, she was the best, the greatest, and everyone's angel. And she has a parkette named after her. But if she so deserves a parkette, why doesn't everyone else who has been killed or abducted?
Because then the world would be made of parkettes.
Imagine that. Unfair? Yes. Descriminatory? Yes. Shameful? Yes. What did Holly do that was so important? Making people happy. I understand that if this was, oh say, my friend Raquel, I would be on the other side of the fence. But I still wouldn't want a parkette named after her. Cassandra Do, the sex worker mentioned in the same entry linked above, never got a parkette. Because that would mean that people would have to talk about something they find very uncomfortable. Not only was Cassandra a sex worker, but she was also transsexual. Those are two characteristics of Cassandra that wouldn't have "appealed to the demographic" so to speak.
But put a young, pretty, middle class, white girl in the news and everyone's rushing to name stuff after her.
Monday, May 12, 2008
That All [Canadian] Girl
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4 comments:
You are totally right.
Thanks for the link love again, dear!
I just realized something.
Cassandra Do and Holly Jones were killed within less than three months of each other. Guess who's the one nobody's heard of?
Chilling, isn't it?
Wow, I didn't even get to do research on that.
And you're welcome!
You also have to consider that Jones was a child and Do was an adult. Children are considered as precious and innocent humans who haven't had a chance to live beyond childhood, so I understand why this might be a determining factor in wanting to name a parkette after her--parkettes are generally for children/families (unfair, I know), so it would make sense to name one after a child victim. It would make more sense to name a sex workers' organization after Do rather than Jones, wouldn't it? Same deal. But yes, why name a parkette after Jones when there are so many other murdered kids who aren't getting similar treatment?
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