Read All About It! Urgent News! Shock! Horror! Disgust!: Sexy High-Heeled Kitten Killer Apologizes
The latest sensational news item is not about China's global economic dominance plan, Taiwan "compliance," rural development, NPC meetings, 2008 Olympics, or the avian flu. The latest story is about China's High Heeled Kitty Killer from Loubei Country, who released a video over the internet of herself killing a kitty with her high heels. The woman apologized, saying she was distraught after her divorce.
The video disc is being sold for 15yuan by an internet company that specializes in Crushing, a fetish of watching scantly clad women women killing small animals. One video distributor says. "All the videos I sell show beauties dressed in sexy clothes crushing a small animal to death...they are selling very well."
My notes to all the various articles I have read:
- There is conversation among animal rights activists to push for animal welfare laws that would make Crushing and other animal abuse acts illegal. In the end, the police could not arrest her b.c she didn't do anything illegal.
- The woman's identity remained a mystery, but online commentors immediately claimed that the woman must be Japanese, because Chinese people couldn't possible be this cruel. "The Japanese are all psychos. Surely this must be a Japanese woman!" "I believe that we Chinese people are all kind at heart. This can't be a Chinese woman!" (Click here if you read Chinese, and here if you don't)
- Discussions of the mental health are brought up through this story, as reporters are asking why such despondency could drive women to have a fetish for killing animals, and what drives men to have a fetish for watching beautiful, skinny women killing animals.
- A lot of the outrage has been expressed on BBS forums on popular Chinese websites. Citizens have expressed intense emotion around this, some have suggested that the cat killer should be tortured, while a business man has offered to 500,000远yuan ($62,500) for her capture.
What is interesting about this story is how people reacted to it and the dialogue that was brought up. Anger has been framed within a political framework that exposes the need for animal rights laws and a nationalistic dialogue that demonizes the Japanese. More importantly, all this is being mediated online through QQ, chat rooms, and bulletin boards. With more stories like these, perhaps all the other issues of rural poverty and job security can be downplayed. Hey maybe they are learning the formula for the American newscape that keeps its citizens numb to larger issues - like the American Invasion of Iraq or ignorance of President Bush.
Update: She's been found.