Hold men accountable

THE EDITOR, Madam:

It is with much concern that I read the comments on social media in response to the heartless killing of Shantell Whyte allegedly by her partner, who was also her colleague and, unfortunately, a married man.

It is disheartening that women especially have used the sinister outcome to reduce the deceased to nothing but a “home-wrecker”, who deserved the brutality meted out to her because “that’s what you get for tekking people man”. It seems that the woman is to be blamed for both the man’s infidelity and the events leading up to her death.

Apparently, the young lady was ‘Princess Charming’ and used her ‘charm’ to force his hand into a relationship with her. The same hand that pulled the trigger sealing her demise; yet still, amid the gore of it all, many women blame the deceased for this also.

It is attitudes like these that affirm men in their wrongdoings. The women always get the proverbial end of the stick despite the facts, and, distastefully, it is always other women wielding the stick unashamedly.

There is no such thing as ‘tek people man’ or a ‘home-wrecker’. It takes two persons to make a relationship work, and by always holding the woman responsible, the scales of accountability will always be unbalanced, thereby validating a man’s ‘right’ to be unfaithful and do as he pleases.

It doesn’t matter who was wrong or right up to the irreversible hour of Shantell’s death; no one deserves to die at the hand of another human being. A life is a life. We need to have as much passion for human life as we do for human indiscretions, and at the same time hold the men accountable for their indiscretions!

VENIESHA ROCHESTER