Mosley & Hayes: Murder/Suicide in Feminism

It breaks my heart when I hear about women being murdered when it is a murder-suicide—in a heterosexual relationship.

Usually, after I wake up and do my morning rituals (using the restroom and getting my coffee ready…sitting down and actually opening my laptop or tablet to check out what is going on), I start looking on my Facebook news feed to see what stories are going on around 6 AM in the morning.

Well, this story shook me to my core. As I was scrolling down, I saw an article about a young woman being murder by her husband. And the same murdering husband committed suicide. The reason for murdering his wife, Stephanie?

Because she was having an affair.

Since I’ve been a feminist and following stories as this, I always suspect there is more going on than the husband killed her because she was “cheating.” What I suspect is that the husband was controlling his wife behind closed doors. I suspect that the wife had an affair with someone the husband knew, or he was close to. I suspect that there was much more going on in their marriage that led him to make the decision to kill her. However, does it warrant him to murder her since she has an affair on him?

No, it doesn’t. Like many other women have been murdered due to not “obeying” their husbands, I am sick and tired of women being killed as punishment for not doing what their husbands think that they should do.

For granted, I could be wrong about what I suspect. And that’s okay. It still does not warrant this man to take this woman’s life. From how I read his actions, it comes to me as: if I cannot have you, no one cannot have you. I am not going to stay here and suffer the consequences—and that’s why I am taking myself out.

Yet, again, I could be wrong about my suspicions on how this has gone down, but it still does not warrant this man to this woman’s life.

Being in relationships are not easy. Being married is not easy. Being an individual is not easy. People make choices in their relationships that are devastating. However, it does not give nyone the authority to take that person life.

What is also tragic about this situation is Earl Hayes’s “best friend,” Floyd Mayweather watched, heard or both on Facetime Earl murdering his wife and then shooting himself.

It breaks my heart because another woman is murdered due to the man in her life deeming her as not valuable when it comes down to it. Another woman is murder in a heterosexual relationship due to man not being able to control his feelings—and letting his rage take over.
I guess he took that marriage vow seriously, right: “Til’ Death Do Us Part.”

Regards,
S