MFM Minisode 201

[0] This is exactly right.

[1] And welcome to my favorite murder.

[2] I feel like we're starting, the mini -zone.

[3] I feel like we're starting to draw hello out.

[4] Like the longer we're in quarantine, the longer the hello is getting.

[5] It's like you can hear it deep down, isn't this still happening underneath all?

[6] Oh.

[7] We're filming this for the fan cult.

[8] We put up some live recordings on the fan cult.

[9] And I just realized that I need to put my computer a little higher.

[10] So it's not just full chin.

[11] under chin view.

[12] You have to do what I do and just like stack it up on as many dictionaries and thesoruses as you can find.

[13] I want it to be like a tall, I'm staring up at a tall, really tall person, you know.

[14] I want to lay on my back and hang it by chains from the ceiling.

[15] Cool.

[16] It kind of like a modern art way.

[17] So this is where we reach your story.

[18] Do you know what this is?

[19] Oh, it's been a week.

[20] Do you want to go first?

[21] Sure.

[22] Okay.

[23] I'd also just like to say that I recently covered my roots.

[24] And this color hair that my hair is down that you can see because you're doing video is the color hair I had as a child.

[25] It's like a beautiful dark brown that's got nice highlights in it.

[26] It's just kind of, yeah, just medium brown.

[27] I like it.

[28] Here's number one.

[29] Hi from across the pond, or as we say in Yorkshire, A -Up.

[30] Oh.

[31] Today, the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, died.

[32] of coronavirus, no less.

[33] No. Did you hear that?

[34] Yeah, the Yorkshire Ripper died in jail of coronavirus.

[35] Great.

[36] So I thought it would be a good time to share my connection to the case.

[37] I'm from Leeds in Yorkshire, England.

[38] My mom's side of the family is from Bingley, West Yorkshire.

[39] Mr. Bingley, this is all very, this is kind of like me reading places in Narnia and then.

[40] but it's real it's real i assure you and she grew up there one street over from the suck cliff family that is the yorkshire rippers family my uncle wasn't still his good friends with peter suckless brother and once visited his house which he remembers as being a quote long walk over the moors where peter gave them spam to eat a disgusting food suitable for a disgusting man My uncle has told me that the Sutcliffe family are lovely people and couldn't be further removed from the horrible crimes Peter committed.

[41] Just another example of the family, the murderer's family being victims too.

[42] On this day, I'd like to take some time not to focus on the awful serial killer, but an inspiring event which came about because of both his crimes and police mishandling of the case.

[43] At the time, both the police and the press zeroed in on the fact that Sutcliffe was killing sex workers.

[44] They investigated and presented the case as only sex worker related, despite the fact that Succliffe murdered women who were not.

[45] Police also advised women to, quote, stay indoors after dark, blaming women and the victims of these crimes for simply living their lives.

[46] As a result, 60 women marched in Leeds, carrying signs that read things like, no curfew for women, curfew for men.

[47] Fuck yeah, right?

[48] Thus began the Reclaim the Night protests, which continue to this day across the UK, marching against victims.

[49] and blaming and seeking to make public spaces safe for women even at night.

[50] I'm proud to be from Leeds where women refused to be blamed by sexist dickheads and stood up for their rights and the rights of Sutcliffe's victims.

[51] Right now, and that's moving to me. That's so, I mean, what an amazing thing to do.

[52] Right now, I go to University in Sheffield, and the university accommodation is in the same area where Sutcliffe was finally apprehended.

[53] So I seem to follow this case wherever I go.

[54] It reminds me that there are dangerous people out there, but more importantly, that a crime is never the victim's fault, and you have the right to fight back.

[55] I write for the university's branch of the newspaper, The Tab.

[56] And I don't know what that's like.

[57] The tab.

[58] We're keeping tabs on you.

[59] Wink.

[60] Wink, we got you.

[61] This clearly I haven't, like, been around other people for a while, so everything's really exciting.

[62] This email's exciting, words, nouns, all of it.

[63] And wrote an article.

[64] about Succliffe's death today.

[65] Check out if you fancy it.

[66] Go over to the the tab .edu, I imagine, UK.

[67] Probably.

[68] In the article, I really wanted to remember the victims of above all else.

[69] All that said, no woman should ever be blamed for her own murder and you should never mess with Yorkshire folk.

[70] XOXO