She told me I as fat, stupid, and lazy. She was always against me. Though emotionally abusive, Mrs. Woodham certainly didn't deserve to die. Racism and sexism can play a part in violence. Racist skinheads dehumanize and sometimes demonize persons of color to the point where some are convinced that violence against them is justified.
Some men dehumanize women to the point where they are objects of rape and physical violence.
The youth who murdered schoolmates in Littleton were alleged to be skinheads. Violence and Restoring Honor For some perpetrators, violence is a way to restore honor, a way to restore a sense of self-efficacy or power. Persons who think this way have a supersensitivity to slights, which can be real or imagined, but real to the affected person. That was a good feeling I got, is that they were afraid. And embarrass them in front of other, the other kids around.