# Serial killer of eight portrayed as a hero.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 13, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120 "2015-09-13T18:54:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/1 "2015-09-13T18:54:56Z")
[Japan’s ‘Black Widow’ Arrested Again After Poisoning Her Eighth Male Victim](https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/japans-black-widow-arrested-again-after-poisoning-her-eighth-male-victim).
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> Is Chisako Kakehi a misandrist hero, or just a sociopathic murderer? Perhaps Japan’s ‘black widow’ serial killer is a bit of both.
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> In a male dominated world, where women make 70 cents for every man’s dollar, I guess a girl has got to get ahead somehow.
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> Indeed, the men who found Kekehi got a lot more than a docile housewife.
I have no comment so far.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/2 "2015-09-13T19:00:20Z")
Disgusting.
And I’m a woman.
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### Author:  [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/3 "2015-09-13T19:04:43Z")
Thank you very much.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/4 "2015-09-13T20:16:50Z")
wtf?
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/5 "2015-09-13T21:02:27Z")
I figured the whole thing was written to basically be a rant so I went with the first choice. While the crime isn’t funny, how it is reported here did have a couple chuckles.
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### Author:  [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/6 "2015-09-13T22:30:16Z")
I’ll admit I didn’t bother reading the article linked in the OP because it doesn’t sound like it’s worth my time, but I see a big difference between saying “Chisako Kakehi is a hero” and “Chisako Kakehi is a _misandrist_ hero.”
Unless the author personally identifies as a misandrist (which is unlikely, even people who really are misandrists probably don’t call themselves that) then that’s just saying that Kakehi is admired by people who are prejudiced against men. I wouldn’t consider that to be a compliment. If Kakehi is indeed admired by misandrists then it seems fair to say so, although not having read the article I don’t know if that’s true.
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### Author:  [@Oops\_I\_Went\_Poopies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oops_I_Went_Poopies)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/7 "2015-09-13T22:52:53Z")
I’m not sure what shocks me more: that she killed eight people or that she got away with it until now.
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### Author:  [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/8 "2015-09-13T23:25:48Z")
I fail to see how this bitch is a hero? So inequality is now excuse for murder? I can see how to misandrist hero, but not to regular folks.
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### Author:  [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/9 "2015-09-14T01:31:20Z")
It’s a crappy article by a stupid writer who thinks “wedding and dead-ing” is such a good phrase, she uses it twice. For the record, there doesn’t seem to be any actual conversation with Chisako Kakehi. It’s all just speculation. The poll needs an option for “Dumb as fuck”.
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### Author:  [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/10 "2015-09-14T01:44:15Z")
What the actual fuck
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/11 "2015-09-14T01:44:24Z")
She ain’t no Dexter.
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/12 "2015-09-14T04:25:07Z")
The linked article is stupid and sensationalistic (not one of the poll options), and the OP fails to mention that the arrest happened over 9 months ago. I found a NYTimes article, which was much more like a news story.
Side note that economic desperation seems unlikely to have been her (main) motive, since it seems like she accumulated over $8 million from the various dead men.
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/13 "2015-09-14T10:49:40Z")
_You gotta be a misandrist hero, to get along with the angry girls_
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/14 "2015-09-14T11:52:43Z")
Yet more trenchant and nuanced analysis from _Vice_.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/15 "2015-09-14T14:22:53Z")
Right and people who go into churches and kill doctors are heroes. Reverse the roles and see how fucking heroic a man who did the same thing would be.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/16 "2015-09-14T14:38:26Z")
Junk reporting but then stories from _Vice_ are always uneven. I find their travels stories interesting sometimes but their news stories often leave a lot to be desired and feel more intended to push a viewpoint than to inform.
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/17 "2015-09-14T19:29:43Z")
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> Gone are the days of good Confucius children who take care of their aging parents, says White, which leaves unmarried or widowed men—who traditionally view care work as women’s work—seeking a female companion. “[Her victims] are of a generation of men who never did learn how to take care of themselves. They do not know how to live independently. They had previous wives, and they were waited on hand and foot by that generation of women.”
I think this is what makes it sound like an indictment of the victims instead of the killer. Though in my view, she is trying to indict the society which left these men helpless. Life skills/home Ec. classes are so easy to offer, and many people will volunteer to lead them.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serial-killer-of-eight-portrayed-as-a-hero/731120/18 "2015-09-14T20:02:08Z")
I admit a bit of prejudice on this account. Just based on your description, I was **certain** that the article was going to be from the Daily Mail. I hope I learned my lesson!