The Murder of MP Jo Cox.

What strikes me from the initial readings is how much gender can comment on citizenship, and in my ignorance, it is not a link I have considered before. What fascinates me is how citizenship has meant different things to different genders. In a simple form, women did not have the right to vote in the UK until 1918. This creates a stigma, this creates a legacy and most importantly it creates double standards within our society's fundamental grasp of citizenship.

Last Summer, MP Jo Cox was fatally attacked outside a Library. Jo was a much loved MP who was married and a mother died in a savage act, but what really happened? What followed was the politicians and their generalized groans of "sympathies" and "loss." What didn't follow was a real address about what the attack represented. In a summer where we fell out of love with Europe and anything different from ourselves. If Ed Balls or Michael Gove had been murdered there would have been a call to arms, maybe even a war announced. But alas, a lovely female politician gets savagely attacked in broad daylight and all we can do is a few glossy articles in the press and on Facebook. I think the lack of grief and attention shown to her murder is disgusting. I also think that it shows what our nation is generally and that is a group of people that engage with the different in an immediate negative perspective which is void of clear reasoning. A murder of Jo Cox did not send the general public rioting on the streets as they did in London years before but instead it was lining the paper bins only days later. Why was this murder so forgotten and why was it just normalised in "that crazy summer we voted leave" when someone can shoot a politicain in broad daylight and it not be a major event.

I am suggesting that the reason for her murder being so underwhelming in the public sphere is because of her gender. I am being deliberately controversial, but I believe had she been male then there would have been much more of a reaction. This is of course totally wrong and superficial, but something I think has notions of truth in it.

Provacation; Female MPs do not carry much political power and respect as Male MPs based simply on their gender.... Had Jo Cox been a male MP then it would have caused a much bigger reaction? Do you agree/disagree?