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>From One F'ing Bitch to Another
These two words made Renee Nicole Good’s murder undeniable
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Any debate about the murder of Renee Nicole Good should have ended the moment
we heard these two words: “fucking bitch.” ICE officer Jonathan Ross shot a
woman in the head, killed her, and then called her a fucking bitch.
How many women have died with those same words ringing in their ears? More than
a few. How many of us have been called a fucking bitch in the exact tone of
voice Ross used—dripping with disdain and dehumanization? Probably all of us.
I was already having a hard time sleeping, thinking about the stuffies pouring
out of Good’s glove compartment and her wife’s pained voice. I was already
angry. Now, I’m apoplectic. So let’s be clear: those words made an
already-obvious murder undeniable. Men don’t call a woman a fucking bitch when
they’re afraid for their lives—they say it when they hate us. They say it when
they’re punishing us.
And that’s exactly what Ross was doing to Good: he was punishing her. What the
transgression was, we’ll never really know. Maybe it was because Good tried to
drive off, or because she wouldn’t get out of her car. My guess—given those two
very telling words—is that Ross was triggered by Good’s wife, who said, “show
your face, big boy,” and “go get yourself some lunch, big boy.”
Men who call women fucking bitches don’t much like it when women talk back.
They especially don’t like it when women remind them who they really are:
small, pathetic, cowardly. What’s that Margaret Atwood quote? “Men are afraid
women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will kill them.”
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The murder of Renee Nicole Good didn’t stop in Minnesota, though. Conservatives
have been killing her every day since—smearing this wife and mother’s name in
an attempt to prove that she was, in fact, a total fucking bitch.
Since her murder, conservatives have pushed out viral misinformation calling
Good a known child abuser—as if the ICE officer who shot her in the face could
somehow intuit that she was a ‘bad’ person. People even shared faked police
records. The truth, of course, is that the 37-year-old was never accused or
arrested for child abuse.
At Fox News, pundit Jesse Watters mocked Good on air as a “self-proclaimed poet
from Colorado with pronouns in her bio.” Does Watters believe every liberal he
finds annoying should be executed—or just Good?
But it’s been the attack on her child’s school that’s put me over the edge.
Right-wing media outlets and influencers found the kindergarten where Good sent
her 6-year-old, ’revealing’ its commitment to “social justice.” Apparently the
term itself is evidence of violent left-wing extremism.
One TikToker called the school an “activism factory disguised as education.”
The Washington Examiner, blasting the left’s “thirst for violence,” highlighted
language from the school’s website that says they help “students understand
history and their role in making the world a better place.” And the New York
Post decided it was newsworthy that students are taught about “aboriginal
issues.”
It’s not just right-wing grifters: CNN published a piece yesterday about Good’s
“connection to efforts to monitor and potentially disrupt ICE operations.” The
connection? She sat on the school’s board, which once shared a document with
parents on how they could get involved with protecting their neighbors from
ICE. CNN breathlessly reported Good’s “leadership role at the school has not
been previously reported,” and that she was “deeply involved with the school
community [and] regularly attended board meetings.”
Yeah, what a fucking bitch.
This is what we’re meant to believe made Good a dangerous domestic terrorist
who deserved to be killed in front of her wife? That she regularly attended
school board meetings? That she believed people shouldn’t be snatched off the
street by anonymous men in masks?
I also don’t want to see my neighbors kidnapped, and I also send my child to a
school that openly values social justice. Do I also deserve to be shot in the
face? Here’s the problem: I already know conservatives’ answer.
That’s what all this coverage and right-wing backlash is ultimately getting
at—that we deserve to die. That for the crime of resisting, or having pronouns
in our bios, we should be shot. That for being women, or having a wife—or for
caring about the people in our communities regardless of their immigration
status—we should just go ahead and die. That’s the barely-shrouded message in
every bit of coverage suggesting Good is an ‘activist’, or that she wrongly
resisted ICE.
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It’s not that I’m surprised: this is a violent country, and this government is
already killing us. Today we learned about another woman murdered by an
abortion ban—a mother in North Carolina. People are dying because of Republican
Medicaid cuts, because of the administration’s attacks on immigrants, and
because of police violence. This time, though, the government did their killing
out in the open—in daylight and without shame.
Back in 2020, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave a floor speech after
Republican Rep. Ted Yoho called her a “fucking bitch.” She said, “this issue is
not about one incident, it is cultural.”
“It is a culture of lack of impunity, of accepting of violence and violent
language against women, an entire structure of power that supports
that...dehumanizing language is not new and what we are seeing is that
incidents like these are happening in a pattern. This is a pattern of an
attitude towards women and dehumanization of others.”
Over five years later, that pattern is still here—and it’s still deadly. And I
hope that the women aligning themselves with this administration understand
that no matter what, we are all fucking bitches to them.
So from one fucking bitch to another, let’s say it plainly: We know what
happened to Renee Nicole Good. We know what those words meant.
We know he murdered her.
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