Doing Woman Different: Aileen Wuornos

Aileen Wuornos was born in Rochester, Michigan on Leap Year 1956, different right from the start. Aileen was born to a teenage (15) mother who was abused by her parents, including raped by her father. Aileen's teenage mother married a sociopath who was later imprisoned for raping a 7 y/o girl, he would later commit suicide in prison. Maybe the only lucky break Aileen received in her life, is her mother and father separated before her father got the chance to rape her.

Aileen's mother abandoned her and her older brother when Aileen was four, leaving them with her mother's parents Lauri and Britta Wuornos. Aileen's grandmother Lauri, was an abusive alcoholic and her grandfather was her mother's rapist. As can be expected, Aileen very early on had emotional and anger issues at home and in school. At age fourteen she became pregnant by her brother, she spoke later of her grandfather, her grandfather's friend and brother raping her. How often we do not know. Aileen was forced to have the child in a home for unwanted mothers and forced to give the infant up for adoption. After returning to her grandparents, her grandmother's alcohol abuse finally killed her and her grandfather contacted the state turning Aileen and her brother over to them for a short time. Afterward her brother at the age of twenty one died of throat cancer and her grandfather committed suicide.

Afterward Aileen ran away, living in a fort in the woods for a time. Despite her frostbitten body, Aileen still hoped what was out there in the world couldnt be worse than the home she left behind. Unfortunately, she was wrong. Between her age, her abused/sexually abused-mental state and patriarchy's constant hard on, Aileen prostituted herself for food, money, shelter, maybe even some faux deceptive human warmth. To alleviate the horrors of being raped for money by men, Aileen resorted to petty crimes in between prostitution. She hitchhiked to Florida, was picked up and married at twenty years old a nearly seventy year old john. The marriage was annulled within a few months, Lewis (the husband) didnt approve of Aileen's youthful exuberance of bars/drinking and not wanting to be under the dominance of yet another male.

Aileen drifted in and out of trouble, further abuses by men who bought her body for sex, pent up anger and rage, short lived lesbian relationships and drugs. In 1986, Aileen met and fell passionately in love with Tyria Moore. Their relationship was as bad as it was good, but for Aileen the good outweighed the bad. Tyria expected Aileen to be the financial supporter in their relationship, urging Aileen to continue prostituting herself, regardless of the physical dangers and psychological repugnance Aileen experienced being fucked by men as a lesbian. But Aileen would have done anything for Tyria, if you love someone enough you should be willing to die for that person, Aileen believed in fairytale like fashion.

Several years into Aileen's and Tyria's relationship, while trying to earn money for what had become for her-family-Aileen was picked up Richard Mallory. Mallory attacked and attempted to rape (raped) Aileen, she defended herself with the small handgun she carried in case such a circumstance ever arose. In a panic, Aileen dumped his (naked) body in a wood using his car. She also took the money that he agreed to exchange with her for using/abusing her body to pleasure his dick.

Triggered from years of systematic emotional and sexual abuses from males, Aileen made a beeline to Tyria for comfort, love and to lay her burden at Tyria's feet. From what occurred over the next year, six murders of men found naked, killed/robbed with .22 caliber bullets, we can glean that Aileen received little comfort from Tyria in Mallory's attack on her and her rightful (would anyone believe her?) reaction. Tyria used Aileen's fear of abandonment to keep her actively prostituting, creating situations like the one with Mallory or perhaps even instigating Aileen to simply kill and rob these male deviants since Aileen had already killed once, regardless of the circumstance. Aileen and Tyria were subsequently followed by police, who later took Aileen into custody where Tyria was quick to place blame on Aileen, absolving herself from any charges for her all too willing help in convicting Aileen.

Right from the start Aileen was portrayed as a lesbian man hater and first female serial killer by authorities and media alike. Serial killers have (and still are) ALWAYS been men, Aileen was patriarchy's (in their masculine minds) first chance to show women too were as sick and sexually vile as they. By linking Aileen's prostitution (sexual work) with killing multiple times through her work as a prostitute, Aileen was labeled a female serial killer. Male authorities on all fronts, police, FBI, psychologists, psychiatrists, serial killer profilers etc believed (hoped) no one would notice Aileen wasnt a female serial killer at all, but a multiple murderer. There is no evidence Aileen's pussy was wet when she killed Mallory in self defense or if her pussy was wet and she had an orgasm when she or Tyria killed the other men she was accused of killing. Sexual motivation (usually sadistic), the sole component of serial killers, was thoroughly lacking in Aileen's case.

But these truths didn't stop the homophobic media frenzy that made "Aileen Wuornos" a household name at the real life and death expense of Aileen Wuornos the emotionally/physically/sexually abused/perpetually abandoned lesbian! Selling Aileen as the first female serial killer was a gold mine on many counts and to many people with the exception of Aileen herself, including Tyria Moore who sold both Aileen Wuornos and sold Aileen out. In murder trial after murder trial, Aileen in effort protect her love/home/family i.e. Tyria Moore (who testified against Aileen) Aileen took full responsibility in each murder (1 exception), completely absolving Tyria from any involvement.

Aileen played up being loud, obnoxious and angry with violent tendencies that could go off any minute in court. These displays ensured that Aileen on trial was the same Aileen Wuornos the public hated/wanted to hate, further lending credibility to HER being the cold blooded lesbian man hating killer authorities/media claimed she was, giving Tyria Moore a get-out-of-jail free card. Pictures of Aileen snapped by media in moments of passionate pleads were (are still) flaunted in newspapers, news reports, exposés, films, documentaries and a host of other mediums. The ugly lesbian man hating serial killer of men had a name and a face.
Images such as this one were routinely presented to the public. Anything that made her appear a mix of dykey/crazy/violent. This image (visual and the killer lesbian headlines) of Aileen made her murder by the state of Florida a lot more palatable.

Images of Aileen as a victim of patriarchy crimes against women, Aileen who despite these horrors struggled to find throughout, a snip it of happiness and some inner peace that from birth was unknown to her, were not so popular in the media.
During her eight years in prison, Aileen was used and abused by a motley crew of attention seekers and money hungry opportunists. She was put to death in 2002, after refusing to use her appeals. This way, Tyria Moore would no longer have to worry about any future incrimination's, all responsibility for the deaths of these seven johns rapists died with Aileen.

As Aileen became nationally known, what troubled her most was not being labeled the first female serial killer, but in how media recreations and films portrayed her prostituting herself. A dirty blonde with a low cut tight top, short skirt and come fuck me heels. Aileen said she only ever wore a t shirt, jeans and tennis shoes. Aileen consciously chose NOT to adopt constructed femininity when she turned tricks, feeling instead that by not doing so, she retained something of her dyke dignity, separating herself from prostitutes who willfully acquiesced everything to please men.

Aileen endured (survived) a lifetime of some of the worst that patriarchy could dish out to females, in the end Aileen dared to FINALLY have a normal reaction to those horrors. Aileen refused constructed femininity, refused heterosexuality, refused to cross her feet at the ankle, refused to speak quietly, refused to sugarcoat her speech, refused to be abused any longer by men, refused, refused, refused! In doing so Aileen became public enemy number infinite, because women who are lesbians are threatening, but lesbians who kill (bad) men, no matter the circumstance, must die!

Aileen was murdered for her unruly dykeness in as much as she was for the murders of the multiple men she was convicted. Aileen Wuornos did woman differently, so differently in fact an entire state (country?) put her to death for it.

Aileen used to be somebody's baby...


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