VBB 376 Elizabeth Flock: Justice or Murder, When Women Kill?

VBB 376 Elizabeth Flock: Justice or Murder, When Women Kill?

From VIRGIN.BEAUTY.B!TCH by VIRGIN.BEAUTY.B!TCH

May 11, 2026 · 32 min · Episode 373

About this episode

Elizabeth Flock discusses the complexities of justice and vengeance in cases where women kill due to systemic betrayals.

Elizabeth Flock is an Emmy award-winning journalist with bylines in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, the Atlantic, and many other publications. She’s also an author who leads us through the dark, murky waters of women and vengeance. Her book, "The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice,” unravels what happens when women are betrayed by systems set up to protect them. When, on average, 50,000 women and girls are killed by intimate partners or family members annually, often because police, courts, and politicians failed to act on complaints and protect them, sometimes justice for women becomes an act of desperate vengeance. It's said, Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned,” but when that fury isn’t just anger, and becomes deadly force, can it be justified, or forgiven? Elizabeth bravely explores the roots of systemic, societal, and familial betrayals that can erupt into deadly force.

People in this episode

Host: VIRGIN.BEAUTY.B!TCH

Guest: Elizabeth Flock

Topics covered

  • women and vengeance
  • justice
  • systemic betrayal
  • violence against women
  • intimate partner violence

Keywords

  • women
  • vengeance
  • justice
  • intimate partners
  • systemic betrayal
  • violence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New Yorker, New York Times, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, the Atlantic

Books & works: The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

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