Re-post: in memory of nina reiser
Hans felt that his intelligence gave him special privileges. (Did I mention that he and my husband worked together at Rearden Steel? Yes, named for the company in Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged. You can’t make this shit up.) Armed with his titanium sense of entitlement, Hans insisted on what he saw as his rights. And it seems that when Nina stood up for herself, he choked her to death in the driveway of his mother’s home while their children were playing in the basement.
He probably didn’t intend to kill her. My husband makes the macabre point that if the murder were premeditated, Hans would have been better prepared for it. Having done it, though, Hans thought he ought to get away with it. He thought he could outsmart the police. He thought that his intellect was so great that it was only reasonable that he should get away with murder.
Hard to think of a more graphic illustration of the way Silicon Valley-style technocratic capitalism can reinforce the kyriarchy.
But here I go again, indulging the temptation to make Nina’s death a metaphor, a political point, an argument, instead of what it is, which is a tragedy. Today, on the fifth anniversary of her murder, I remember Nina.
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Jessica Marie:
January 3rd, 2012 at 7:38 am
While this is a very sad way to start my morning it hits close to home. We have some family relatives who have just lost a family member.
This post reminds me that while death generally ends up becoming a topic of conversation which can lead to gossip or political banter in the end it is what it is: death. It is a loss, something that should be respected and treated with vast amounts of dignity.
Nina and Nana will be in my thoughts today.
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