How nice to know that abuse can still generate a chuckle or two.
There’s nothing that says ‘I do’ more than having your rear end forever marked with your husband’s initials on your wedding night. Officials are questioning a 54-year-old man who forcibly used a cattle brander on his 22-year-old wife the night before their wedding.
The jealous husband explains that he tried to justify the branding by saying he wanted to make sure that other men knew right away that his new wife was his, and only his.
A woman branded on the night before her wedding makes a cute news story. Does it really?
What exactly is cute about the scar she will now carry the rest of her life?
What is cute about the damage to her body and psyche?
What is cute about the breach of trust? The fear? The pain?
There’s nothing that says ‘I do’ more than having your rear end forever marked with your husband’s initials on your wedding night.
How could these lines be written unless there was some agreement that she is property? That he had a ‘right’ to commit this act of abuse.
The police say “he has some explaining to do”.
Some explaining? What explanation would make what he did alright?
Well this humour challenged radical feminist sees no humour in this story. I do however find it funny that anyone can say with a straight face feminism is not needed.
This is a disgusting phenomenon, but I think it’s quite common. When I was recovering from my bicycle accident, at least two guys (strangers) approached me to crack jokes about being beaten. I was just stunned firstly that anyone would find that funny and secondly that they’d have the gall to say that to a stranger. Perhaps they joke about it to normalize it?
even given the impoverished dynamics of human social behaviour…
recognizing the role of ‘gallows humour‘ in the face of distress or horror, does *not* cover this situation. How many women have choked back comments in the face of lame ‘battered, not baked, women’ “jokes” to bi-pass the social strain of ‘being a humourless bitch’.
in our soothing, nurturing characters, we find ourselves bound to ‘go along to get along’.
thank you for pointing a strong light on a real problem.
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