Gender-based violence against women is a subject that evokes memories of bizarre incidents witnessed in many countries across the globe. Regional groups, governments, and international bodies today recognise violence against women as an issue that is easily dismissible, yet it needs urgent redress. Due to the magnitude of attention that violence against women has received in the recent past, the media too has increasingly highlighted cases of violence against women on a wider scale. However, the approach assumed by the media in reporting cases of gender violence could still serve to propagate the very issue that it seeks to address. This essay seeks to scrutinise an article that appeared in the National NOW Times in 2007 with the intent of critically examining the manner in which it was structured to find out if it covered all aspects pertinent to this nature of issues. This subject is of particular interest especially considering the fact that a feminist authored the article. The article opens by highlighting a horrific incident that occurred in a school in Pennsylvania where ten girls were shot and five of them succumbed to death (Gandy 5). Mention is not made of whether there were any boys in the vicinity at the time. Additionally, the incident occurred in an Amish school (Gandy 5). The Amish are well known for being conservative people with an unrivalled devotion to their religious principles. In light of this idea, Amish girls definitely embody an off-bounds group of girls in society. The villain in the incident is reported to have been habitual in perpetrating this nature of crimes (Gandy 5). This aspect again depicts characters in society, who seem to draw gratification from occurrences that cause devastating emotional consequences to society. The article further highlights a similar incident in which a man took six girls hostage in a school classroom and killed one of them after sexually molesting all of them (Gandy 5). A similarity that is obvious in both incidents is that both perpetrators took their own lives after the incidents probably due to the anticipated consequences. The two crimes jolted people back to the reality surrounding the relationship between men and women. The fact that both incidents occurred in one country within a span of less than a week raises eyebrows. This assertion is compounded by the fact that the incidents occurred in the US, which is among the most progressive in almost all aspects across the world. This aspect raises the probability that violence against women is still prevalent even in the most progressive societies albeit with varying degrees of seriousness. The article rightly raises a question of what might be amiss if such atrocities against women can still be found within the borders of a country that embodies justice for all. In both cases of violence, hate-filled men are identified as the perpetrators of the disgusting criminal acts. One is reported as being thirty-five years old and the other fifty-three years old (Gandy 5), which rightly gives the impression that violence against women is propagated by men of all ages. Reports have proved this assertion as true; for example, in 1998, two boys ages 11 and 13 years, killed four girls and a female teacher, but only wounded a male teacher (Gandy 5). In a separate incident, in 2000, a six-year-old boy shot and killed a girl with whom the