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19 best reason in the world. Some lesbians have killed men who have abused them over
many years. Among them have been husbands, brothers, fathers.
20 it was Pauline’s mother they killed. The now famous case of Pauline Parker and Juliet
Hulme which occurred in Christchurch, New Zealand in June 1954. The story can be
read from a lesbian perspective in Julie Glamuzina and Alison J. Laurie’s Parker and
Hulme (1991). The film Heavenly Creatures (1994) deals with the material in a more
populist way. In 1998 Matricide: The Musical took up the story of these two women in
a theatrical, physical, operatic piece written by Kathleen Mary Fallon and composed
by Elena Kats-Chernin for Chamber Made Opera. The set involved the audience
being led into a barbed-wire prison enclosure for the performance.
21 lesbian vampire. The so-called lesbian vampire killers of Brisbane shot to international
fame when they killed a man who had accepted a ride in their car. The media
focused most on the lesbian sexuality of the women, and in particular alleged blood
rites by Tracey Wiggington.
22 patriarchy power. Valerie Solanas was one of the first in this latest wave of feminism to
express the need to kill men in order to end patriarchy. She writes, “if women don’t
get their asses in gear fast, we may very well all die.” Valerie Solanas. 1967. SCUM
Manifesto. p. 24. Solanas drew attention to herself by shooting Andy Warhol. Since
then the most public expression of this force has been explored in films such as A
Question of Silence (1982), I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) and Love Serenade (1996).
23 beard. Lesbians who have beards because they happen to have more hair grow on
their faces than is socially acceptable are sometimes mistaken for young gay men. A
women’s liberation slogan of the 1970s ran along the lines: we love ourselves only as
much as we love our sisters with hair on their faces. Bearded lesbians were frequent
spectacles in the “freak shows” of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In
contemporary Western culture the hairless woman is the prescribed norm, but in
many other cultures bearded women earn respect, as it is often a signature of age
and wisdom.