Word: bobbitts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Those who embrace Lorena Bobbitt as a heroine are doing a disservice to efforts to combat violence against women. It is possible to recognize her as a victim of marital abuse without condoning her actions. What needs to be understood from this tragedy is the fact that many women who are in abusive relationships often do not realize the steps they can legally take to free themselves from their desperate situations...
...American population is to learn anything from the whole Bobbitt saga, let it be not that such events make good courtroom drama to watch on television, but that marital abuse occurs far too often in our society, The tragedy here is two-fold: it is the horror of a woman dismembering her husband coupled with the knowledge that she suffered from his physical abuse. Our efforts should be spent not promoting weenie tosses or slicer jokes, but working to ensure that incidents such as either of these do not occur again...
John Wayne Bobbitt, Michael Jackson, Tonya Harding, Lorena Bobbitt, Erik Menendez and Lyle Menendez, who, by some inexplicable synchronism, have created a historic profusion of simultaneous tawdriness