Edited sentence: It is not that such women do not generate value or are not valuable members of the family; but rather the key to honor killing is that from the authoritarian, patriarchal vantage point, "deviant" women appear as intolerable costs; their inherent worth and contributions are discounted.Women enabled to assert their own preferences and goals are felt as an unbearable disruption of men's planned economic and political networks, where women are normatively presumed to be manipulable tools of that networking