Pubdate: Thu, 14 Sep 2006
Source: Gateway, The (U of Alberta, CN AB Edu)
Copyright: 2006 Gateway Student Journalism Society
Contact:  http://www.gateway.ualberta.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3149
Author: Conal Pierse

DRUG CARTELS RIFE WITH GENDER INEQUALITY

In my spare time I like to read news from around the world.

This serves two purposes: first, it makes the rest of the world seem
like a terrible and frightening place that I don't want to
visit--which is a good thing because I can't afford to travel.

Second, the news is a good cover window to have when surfing for
porn--it adds a certain amount of sophistication to the depravity. But
the other day, I came across a story that made me furiously limp.

A gang referring to themselves simply as "The Family" stormed into a
Mexican nightclub and ordered the customers onto the ground, after
which they proceeded to toss five freshly severed human heads onto the
dance floor along with a handwritten note. This note claimed that "the
family does not kill for money.

It does not kill women. It does not kill innocents.

It kills only those who deserve to die. Everyone should know, this is
divine justice."

The act is believed to be part of the escalating turf war between
rival drug cartels in the area. I find this act to be utterly
despicable and a terrible shame.

In this modern world we live in, it's incredibly sexist to assume that
women cannot be killed by a drug cartel too--or belong to one for that
matter.

Women have worked hard to prove that they're equal to men in all
aspects, and I feel that the same is true for their capacity for evil.
Who am I to say that women aren't as capable of blood-thirst as I am,
or that a woman couldn't organize and carry out a full-fledged massacre?

Women like Catherine the Great, Ranavalona, Aileen Wournos and Martha
Stewart have demonstrated to the world that the inner circles of hell
are not reserved for men alone.

These brave trailblazers have paved the way for future generations of
evil women by slaughtering subjects, killing johns and whipping
interns with extension cords for failing to understand the difference
between a French press and a milk frother.

Despite all this, it's sad to see that the role of women continues to
be overlooked in the drug industry. True, there don't seem to be many
female drug lords or even high ranking cartel members, but this is due
to the glass ceiling that prevents woman from climbing the bloody
rungs of the cartel ladder than as a result of a lack of women working
in the drug industry.

The drug world still promotes the heavily chauvinistic attitude that
women should "get back in the kitchen and bake some crack," and that
they aren't suited to the business aspect of the cartel. These
attitudes prevent women from rising much higher than lowly positions
such as distributors and mules, while the role of drug baron seems
more of a dream than a possibility to most. In the legal business
world, women face problems at the top too, but their troubles pale in
comparison to those faced by women who choose a career in crime.

Unfortunately these problems won't be easily solved, and it will take
some brave women with condoms full of heroine up their asses who are
willing to do whatever it takes so that future generations of women
can finally get a piece of the big rock in the sky.
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