“I am not a monster. I am sick,” says Ariel Castro, a man whom captured and sexually abused three women and held them captive for a decade in his home, as reported on CNN.
He states that his addiction to sex made him “impulsive”, and rambles on to blame his victims, asserting that the sex was “consensual”, while simultaneously apologizing to them and their families.
“There are psychopaths among us” and he looks like “one of them”, reports Anderson Cooper.
One reporter says that Castro attended church every Sunday while the three women, plus a child, were chained up in his house, where the windows were boarded up.
This man gave me the impression that he truly believed he did nothing wrong, that he was in complete lack of control of his “illness”. I do not understand how a man such as him attends Mass every Sunday, a “sanctuary” for so many people, the home in which “Jesus saves”, and returns home to oppress, no mercy spared.
I do not know when this conditioning began, the implanting and cultivating of the notion that women are weak and inferior to men. No sex is better than the other, we all endure physical, mental, and spiritual struggle. However, many men do not understand or appreciate our differences, our plight. We are able to house and carry a living thing inside of our stomachs for months, suffering from physical strain and emotional spontaneity. Yes, men provide the seed, but we provide the pot, soil, water, nutrients, and “sunlight”. We have the ability to feel a million emotions at once. We are not better than men because of these things. We are separate and equal, and many men, especially women, forget this.
Source:
http://smallvoiceloudmind.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/monster-in-ohio/