Like, I TOTALLY should've gotten an Oscar

[veronica_rich]

NOW I remember why I don't watch TV on Sunday afternoon. There's not much on anyway, and heaven help you if you stop on MSNBC and its "true crime" programs. *shudder*

Like the one I'm watching now, that's basically a trainwreck I can't look away from. This young couple gets together and eventually marries - but before they even marry, the husband has abused and raped and killed two teenage girls, and the wife has helped out by drugging them (and there were more than didn't end up dying). One of the murdered girls was the wife's 15-year-old sister - who she drugged for the husband as a "Christmas present" in 1990.

Cut to videos every so often of the wife talking during a psychiatric evaluation how she didn't willingly do any of this - how she did it basically to get along and not piss her husband off further into abusing her more. Going on how she "was, like, really good at hiding the abuse." PAH. UGH. BLECH.

Now what angers me about this, other than the obvious offense I feel on behalf of the raped and murdered girls, is this twinkie defense of the wife's. "Wahhhh, I was being abused! Wahhh, I had to save myself!" Bitch, I've KNOWN true abused women - lots of them. I worked with a few. You've just fucked over any sympathy they might get from some of the viewers of this program, who don't already know abused women themselves.

There are abused women who turn a blind eye to their partners abusing their children, or refuse to believe them. This is true. But many, MANY more are inspired to leave as soon as they see this happening, because while they might be willing to put up with it personally, they don't want to see their children (or perhaps by extension, a younger sibling?) treated this way. And, though I have contempt for women who turn a blind eye, it isn't quite the same as actively participating in the systematic degradation and killing your husband enjoys doing.

Another reason I don't believe Bitch's story is because a lot of this happened before they were ever married. I'm well aware of the number of women who marry men who are already abusing them, but there's a much bigger number who don't see those "true colors" until after the I Do's. Divorce is expensive and a pain in the ass - but why couldn't Bitch have just gotten away from him before they married? She had parents who could help, who by all accounts were fine until their younger daughter was murdered (the death at the time was ruled choking on her own vomit after drinking too much and passing out from Christmas liquor - liquor laced with drugs her sister gave her from a veterinary clinic). Best of all, she had no legal or financial obligations to get out of by breaking up with Asshole.

Here's what I would do: Bitch needs her clit clipped off and force-fed to her, right behind the asshole's balls. He can snack on his own penis, preferably while still attached (I have no problem with breaking his spine to make this possible). Yes, I am vindictive - have you met me?

Comments

[a-silver-rose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she's pissing me off by osmosis. There are abusive relationships, and there are "mutual combatant" ones. Hers sounds like the latter, with a dose of sibling anger thrown in.

[gobsmacked.livejournal.com]

Watching the Karla Homolka - Paul Bernardo saga I see. The girls disappeared from outside a town an hour's drive from where I grew up, and which was, in fact, Ken's home town. Bernardo was a suspect in sexual assaults in the area near where I went to high school.

Did they mention how the lawyer hid the tapes that showed the girls being tortured, raped and murdered until after the wife had gotten a plea bargain? And that as a result of that plea bargain she has been released into the public again? Or that in prison she chummed up immediately with another woman in for a similarly vile and despicable crime?

My cousin, who is a social worker, tried to get me to feel some sympathy for the husband because he's locked up for the rest of his life in "protective detention" to save his sorry ass from the wrath of the other low lifes in jail. Apparently the other killers and rapists and drug dealers throw faeces at his cell when they pass it. She was shocked when I said "At least he's alive to see it, unlike his victims". She actually expected me to feel some sort of empathy for this moral abortion!

[elibad.livejournal.com]

Karla Homolka was a huge failure on the part of the Canadian Justice system. Did they show the tapes of her walking the cops through her house as part of her plea bargain where she's more concerned over what the cops have done to her drapes than the fact that she helped rape and torture 2 teenagers upstairs? If I remember correctly there were theories that she was the one that killed the girls because she was jealous (just like her sister, and how they ruled that an accident when she had massive chloroform burns all over her face I'll never know).

Karla Homolka was a sociopath who was found herself a pretty psychopath to make the 'perfect life'. Bernardo is a sick fuck who started a serial rapist and moved up to murder because his darling wife helped him (I'm not convinced he was smart enough) not because she was abused but because she is also a sick fuck. Then she and her lawyers started playing games and made the OPP and Crown Prosecutors look life complete rubes.

Some dude did a movie a few years ago that cast Karla in sympathetic light. I now have trouble watching 'That 70s Show' since the actress who played Donna played Carla, and I'm pretty sure that it's a big reason why I don't like Misha Collins/Castiel on SPN since he played Bernardo. And I couldn't even get through the whole film.

Yeah, um. This one bugs me.