iamshadow21
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It may also be the gender split of who wants to go shopping on a Saturday afternoon. I know it's not exclusively the province of women to go shopping and men to stay home, but there are ebbs and flows in retail, times of day when you tend to see more of one gender than the other, more families, more older people, more teens.Also seeing some footage, it’s clear there were quite a few people who didn’t know what was happening. There were people walking directly towards the perpetrator, getting within a metre before realising he had a knife!
I wonder if many of the female victims were with children? I think your focus would already be split between shopping and making sure your children are still with you and behaving, and once you realise something is going wrong nearby, you can’t just quickly remove yourself from the situation; you have to make sure your children are safe too.
Although it definitely might be that women were targeted, I think it is, at the moment, a toss-up. There also may be a few contributing factors that explain why (thus far) more women were killed and seemingly more women were injured without it being that they were necessarily targeted.
(I'm talking now in strict binaries and gender isn't that simple, but for the moment let's pretend it is and that everyone who presents or appears a certain binary gender is that gender.)
So perhaps we're seeing more female victims because there were simply more female customers at Bondi Junction Westfield at that time of day, in that section of the centre. We know the names of some of the businesses where victims were, where the perpetrator was sighted. Chanel was one. That's going to trend to having femme-presenting customers. If the floors he was stalking were of more the fashion and cosmetics side than general groceries, Lowes, and JBHifi (to name some brands at random, no idea if this centre has those outlets), then you're going to probably find more female customers shopping there.
MOO