Just when you think the culture has hit rock bottom, you learn that the rungs of the ladder descend even lower than you had imagined. Just when you think the culture has hit rock bottom, you learn that the rungs of the ladder descend even lower than you had imagined. Nothing should shock us in an era when cable television serves up tasteless parodies of school shootings and stand-up comics use the unsolved murder of a young Denver girl as the punch line to beauty pageant jokes.
Buyers beware, though.
You must enclose proof of your conviction, a copy of a restraining order, or a letter from your parole officer, lest a mere pretender try to pass himself off as a genuinely violent misogynist. Two million women are beaten by their husbands or boyfriends every year and 1,500 of them die, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. More than half a million others are raped and sexually assaulted every year. In Salem, a man was arrested after a stabbing that left his girlfriend dead and her young daughter injured. In Florida, a Michigan state senator was arrested and charged with beating his fiancee in the head.