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...real answer is that the American obsession with this case largely stems for a tremendous sense of fear. Battered women who have killed their husbands occasionally make the last page of the national news, but Lorena Bobbitt horrified Americans because she fulfilled every man's worse nightmare: a fear of castration. Not only had Mrs. Bobbitt committed a unspeakable deed, she was supported by women who seemed to be vicariously living through her. "I feel like we're kindred sisters," said one woman who attended all three days of Bobbitt's trial. "I never thought about cutting off my husband...
...wonder men feel uneasy. Such comments make women feel uneasy, too, Genital mutilation is unpalatable, whether it be female or male, Yet the whole Bobbitt saga has been turned into a media three-ring circus, ranging from Jay Leno's talk-show quips to radio stations hosting Lorena Bobbitt Weenie Tosses, It seems that it's easier to joke about Lorena Bobbitt than it is to deal with the alarming question it raises: was Lorena Bobbitt justified in her attempt to castrate her husband...
...answer is no, she wasn't. That does not mean that she was not the victim of domestic violence, On the contrary, evidence produced at her trial reveled that during her marriage she suffered immense amounts of both physical and emotional abuse. A military social worker testified at Lorena Bobbitt's trial that in a form Mr. Bobbitt filled out after a 1990 marital dispute, he conceded that he had abused his wife, circling categories on the report sheet that included "threw her bodily," "pushed, carried, restrained, grabbed or shoved", and "hit her or tried to hit her with something...
...evidence proves both that Lorena Bobbitt was abused and that she had good reason to feel enraged at her husband. There is no denying the anguish and sense of powerlessness women feel when trapped in such destructive marital relationships. As a Venezuelan immigrant, she may not have realized that there were resources she could turn to as a battered woman. Married at an early age and after here recent immigration, she may have clung to Jon Bobbitt as both an emotional and financial buoy...
...important to examine why exactly Lorena Bobbitt chose to strike back at her husband. When she dismembered John Bobbitt, she was motivated not by fear but by anger. John Bobbitt's penis was a symbol of all the pain and degradation she had been forced to suffer at his hands. By emasculating him, she hoped to make him feel as worthless and powerless as she herself must have throughout their twisted relationship. Her emotions may have been valid, her rage real. Yet unlike many other women who fight back against their batterers, her action was not an act of self...