Why Don't Morgues Hire Men Anymore? Prepare To Be Horrified

Recently a Tweet about how some male waxers preferred female waxers took a dark turn when author Roxanne Gay joined the conversation and mentioned that the reason why morgues hire women had sent her spiralling.

Women estheticians have been on the receiving end of inappropriate behaviour while waxing men. Some of these women responded the same to the tweet. Some other users expressed shock at such behaviour by the male waxers. Some others commented saying they could predict this.

Women from other industries opened up in the tweet to them being made to feel uncomfortable by men.

However, nothing might have prepared you for why morgues hire women instead of males preferably.

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Why Morgues Hire Women

Roxanne Gay the author of Bad Feminist Twitter and wrote that the reason why morgues hire women had her spiralling down a rabbit hole.

A TikTok from the podcast Keeping It 101 explained that unfortunately what Gay had discovered was something that religions had discovered centuries ago. Some morgues hire women to protect female and non-male dead bodies from necrophilia.

The practice of Necrophilia is a gross violation of the dead bodies and therefore religions like Judaism and Islam preferred rituals to be conducted by someone of the same-sex post-death as some interpretations would believe. Why? For modesty but also to protect the dead bodies from men.

The TikTok host speaks of male perpetrators who sexually abuse female dead bodies. Something like this is a violation of one's modesty. Modesty does not cease to exist upon an individual's death.

In 2014, a man named Kenneth Douglas was accused of raping multiple female dead bodies by the family members of the deceased women. This happened in Ohio between 1976 to 1992.

After evidence was gained with the help of DNA testing, Douglas felt pressurised to finally plead guilty. He admitted to having raped 100 female corpses. His excuse for doing so he stated was because he was inebriated. He claims that he would have never done so had he been sober in the first place.

Douglas' concluding remark was uttered with the same casualness that one would use to admit to drunk dialling someone. His crime however was far graver.

Why are women having to face such heinous crimes even after their bodies lie lifeless? Unfortunately, even after the accused are arrested it takes time for them to stand in court for trial. Trials do not end in one day.

The families of the deceased have to go through the trauma of having to watch the accused deny their crimes and stand in their presence. Unfortunately, no judicial system in any country is efficient to deal with such matters speedily.

When women are alive they are asked to dress a certain way and return home during certain hours to avoid such crimes. But what about women who are dead? What does society propose now? Should women be blamed for being dead or being present in the wrong place?

Why should women be held accountable for crimes that men commit? Violating dead bodies goes on the show that rape is not a clothing problem or a timing problem or any other kind of problem other than an improper upbringing of men.

The views expressed are the author's own.