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Unacknowledged Victims of Domestic Violence
Not long ago, someone I dearly love was tormented, degraded, and beaten by a spouse. Nobody stepped in to stop it. Including me. Those of you that know I'm from a small town may chalk it up to a small town mentality, to backward people that haven't caught up to the modern world, people that have no problem leaving a woman in her place. There's one small problem. I never said the victim was a woman. I was one of them that laughed when I heard about what Lorena Bobitt did. I think a lot of us did. More recently, co-hosts on CBS's daytime show The Talk ridiculed a man who had been poisoned or drugged and then tied up by his ex-wife, who proceeded to cut off his penis and put it down the garbage disposal.* I realize this is a departure from my usual content, but this issue has greatly affected both my personal and professional life and the anger I feel, as a woman and a mother, urges me to speak. Many of you may not know that domestic vio...