So I'm reading for criminal law when I come across these startling statistics. In 1984, 90% of female homicide victims were killed by men, and 1/3 were known to have been killed by their husbands or boyfriends (not counting the unknowns!). I don't want to take away from that statistic's power, but I want to point out that in most movies (that I've seen) involving murder and adultery, it is the wife murdering the hussy or vice-versa. As an example, right now, on ABC's
Ugly Betty, one of the background plots involves the hussy planning to kill the husband. (It's actually not revealed yet, but that's this seasoned TV viewer's theory.) Why is Hollywood so backward on this?
Does anybody have any thoughts?
By the way, put this in your box of horrible, misguided, and confused quotes that make you so glad to be living in the 21st century (especially if you're like me and love strong women):
Jealousy is the rage of a man, and adultery is the highest invasion of property.*
What? I would hate a wife who viewed herself as my property. (And I'm not talking in the touchy-feely, end-of-
Breakfast at Tiffany's kinda way.) I just like women who respect themselves and men who respect women. No baby factories for me.
*
Regina v. Mawgridge [1707] Kel. 1, 117,
reprinted in 84 Eng. Rep. 1107
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