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...subject? Lorena Bobbitt...
...Lorena Bobbitt is not the first woman to have ever sliced up part of a man's genitals. According to an article in theAmerican Journal of Surgery, in Thailand in the mid 1970s at least 100 women foreshortened their philandering husbands and threw their penises out the window--a practice dubbed in local terms "feeling the ducks". But Americans need not look beyond their own continent to find other examples--in Canada two years ago a 48 year old woman who castrated her husband was also acquitted, like Lorena Bobbitt, on the grounds that she was a battered woman...
...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...
...list is long one. Lorena Bobbitt to speak at Radcliffe. WAC interviewed by fake reporters. Dean Nathans mocked in angry letters. Netwomen's Secret Santa gets rowdy. And, of course, the most infamous of all: giant inflatable penis disrupts Ec 10 lecture. Make no mistake dear readers, a specter is haunting our campus, the specter of Pranks...
...Lorena Bobbitt's insanity defense wins...