Justice of the Peace....or Justice...OF MURDER!?

[vinnie_tesla]

According to the USDOJ, in 2005, 757 Americans were murdered by the person they were married to. How many of those people used the internet to arrange their weddings is much harder to calculate. However, a cursory search of the internet turns up numerous websites shamelessly devoted to peddling the services of matrimony panderers (or, to use the

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[tlcbird]

"According to the USDOJ, in 2005, 757 Americans were murdered by the person they were married to."

In 1976 it was 2,134?
Hmm. Are domestic violence shelters actually working? Good to know. I'm so close to one that I sometimes only see the seemingly-endless stream of people coming to it.

And I'm also too close to the prostitution issue to comment objectively, but it's still a goddam sore point with me that sex-trafficking continues to be such a huge global business run by people who have the ability to be above the law, roping in poor women and kids of whatever ethnicity is all the exotified rage right now, while it remains illegal for people to hold that power for themselves*. And I know. The issue of legalization is complex. I know.

* not for people to have the power to rope in people like commodified stock, but to simply have the power to the choice of sex work.

Anyway. Having said all that, i'm certainly no sexual revolutionary, so despite all my rage I'm still just a....oh whatever it is Billy Corgan said.

[vinnie_tesla]

Are domestic violence shelters actually working?

That's one possibility, and a welcome one. Here's another.

And you are totally a sexual revolutionary. Don't sell yourself short.

[tlcbird]

If the marriage rate has declined by a few percentage points in a growing population over 25 years and the spousal murder rate went from 2,134 to 757 during roughly the same time, then it would appear there's something else going on. So maybe domestic violence shelters are working.

Anyway, I've never been much of a statistician and the more I get into looking at numbers, the more absurd it seems to be comparing as better or worse any phenomenon of spousal murder. Especially given the fact that even as I type these words, I think of people I know who've been thru insane situations and violence and it makes it hard for me to step back and look at it like that.

As for me being a sexual revolutionary, when I have the economic wherewithal to take a step away from the being-trapped-in-the-job-I'm-in paradigm and get myself into GTA training, I'll be happy to agree with you.

Unrelated...

[tlcbird]

...but a friend just posted this up today and I thought you may find it interesting:
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Re: Unrelated...

[vinnie_tesla]

Relatedly unrelated is this link a friend sent me today.

[tlcbird]

That is the coolest fvcking thing I've seen all month.

Actually, technically I suppose it's the hottest fvcking thing I've seen all month. Ahahahaha.

Okay, vibrator humor at 7:41 am on a Thursday. Maybe not. ;p

[doomtart]

Interesting. L.A. Weekly just did 2 articles about CraigsList: The first chronicling the Katherine Olson murder, which CraigsList is 'involved' with as the young woman had answered an ad for employment (babysitting) on CraigsList and was raped and murdered by the placer of the ad

[vinnie_tesla]

I think math tutoring is clearly the fundamental problem here.

[yagagriswold]

I know you know this already, and I know it's really just a tad off topic for this post, but since you asked: people do not care about spousal murder because wives are still thought of as the property of their husbands. Its no longer said openly--not anymore, not in this country anyway--but still underneath all of the ideas about marriage is this deep-seated belief that he gets to do whatever he wants with her, because HE BOUGHT HER.

[aleph]

I work in a grocery store, so I have the dubious pleasure of listening to scads of (supposedly) inoffensive pop music all day that I would never have paid any attention to. The univocally perverse ideas about love and relationships in our culture apparently escapes notice, even though most of the songs I hear are in praise of loss of independence, identity, and self worth in favor of a lover.

Point being, yeah. Popular romance is in a fucked state.

[aleph]

(Oh, and I meant to specify "of a woman's loss of independence, etc.")

[vinnie_tesla]

Worse, that logic may not even require marriage.

(don't read the comments in the above link unless you have a high tolerance for Internet People stupidity and bile)