I was reading the article about the so-called Craigslist Killer, Philip Markoff, in Vanity Fair, and like almost everybody, I wanted to find out, perchance through this detailed article, WHY?! Stories like this, a bright young man from a well-to-do family with a seemingly normal upbringing make people especially anxious. If you cannot explain WHY, if the answer turns out to be a shrug of the shoulders, Well, something just snapped and he just did, then the world becomes too random for us to feel reassured.
The reporter set out to find the answers. To reassure the readers.
Markoff’s parents were divorced. That of course does not set him apart in this day and age. But… how about what follows next?
“No one I spoke to in the small community remembered Markoff’s parents or step-parents participating in activities at his school or showing up very often at the local Community Activity Center, where he excelled in youth bowling leagues.”
When I read this, I was all like, WTF?!
It is not enough that I am constantly neurotic about providing my kids with as “normal” environment as I could possibly muster, being a full-time working train-commuting mother with a 9-to-5-only-if-I-say-I-give-up-of-ever-being-taken-seriously-and-why-don’t-you-just-quit-then-what-about-my-own-person-and-my-own-identity job, so now I have to worry about them growing up and becoming a crazed killer because I cannot attend their activities at school??!!
Thank you indeed for sending me off to the grandest guilt trip a mother could have ever taken. I may never come back from this one.
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No Way. You’re safe. No guilt trip needed. I am calling Nuts-O-Freakazoid-cracked-fromunionof-egg-and-sperm-geneticmishap OR severe-crazy-house-abusethatnoone-talks-about on this guy.
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LOL. So true. Thanks for the moral support.