Ciudad Juárez femicide as ritual
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retold in 6 talks
Young independent women workers in Ciudad Juárez are kidnapped and ritually tortured and killed by local gangs as a collective reassertion of machismo, and police systematically reclassify these as family violence to render them invisible.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 6
“It's a ritual, it's a formula, it's a collective obscene almost pseudo-sacred event done systematically.”
“it's not that brutal violent animal nature, it's precisely that they are in some terrifying sense cultural”
“if you look at it closely... this is not some kind of an elementary outburst of male fury. it's a clear symbolic structure. it's a social ritual.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
ritualized collective violence
×3
inherent transgression
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reactive violence
×1
Its cast and sources
populated by
Maurizio Lazzarato4Arundhati Roy3Néstor Kirchner1Mika Špiljak1John Bosco1Pussy Riot1Pankaj Mishra1John Boorman1
alongside works
Every retelling 6
Young independent women workers in Ciudad Juárez are kidnapped and ritually tortured and killed by local gangs as a collective reassertion of machismo, and police systematically reclassify these as family violence to render them invisible., illustrating ritualized collective violence,violence as sign of impotence,gender and capitalism
Serial killings of young women workers in Ciudad Juárez follow a strict pattern, gang rape, ritualized torture, disposal, making them a culturally structured act, not random brutality., illustrating learned pleasure,obscene underground,violence as cultural ritual
The serial killings of women in Ciudad Juárez, kidnapping, rape, slow torture of young factory workers, are not private pathologies but a ritualized social act with clear symbolic structure targeting independent female workers., illustrating institutional unconscious,symbolic violence,ideology
The serial killings and rapes of factory women in Ciudad Juárez are not private pathologies but collectively ritualized acts with no arrests despite widespread knowledge. What police systematically suppress is recognition of the social-symbolic character of these crimes., illustrating inherent transgression,ideology,ritualized violence
Gangs systematically abduct, gang-rape, and murder women workers in Ciudad Juárez in ritualized ways; the official response treats them as individual pathological crimes, obscuring their nature as the ritualized dark underside of the ideology of the maquiladora free-trade zone., illustrating inherent transgression,ideology,perversion (political)
In Mexican cities with new factories, serial rape and killing of young women workers follows a precisely ritualized pattern with scissors, conveying the social message 'we men will not tolerate free women', illustrating that even the most brutal violence is symbolic, not simply animalistic., illustrating violence as symbolic ritual,jouissance,gender