Posted on 01/31/2019 12:57:07 PM PST by Paladin2
MANASSAS, Va. — Lorena is very matter-of-fact about the whole thing. There, she said as she drove us around in her Kia on a recent afternoon, was the hospital where surgeons reattached John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis after she cut it off with a kitchen knife as he slept on the night of June 23, 1993.
Fifteen minutes away, near Maplewood Drive, was the gravel-strewn field where she disposed of the detached penis out the driver’s side window. So, why did she throw it away? I asked. “I tried to drive the car, obviously, but I had this thing in my hand so I couldn’t drive so I got rid of it.” Obviously.
Further down the road is the nail salon where she worked and fled to that night. “I’m not a vindictive person because I told them where it was,” Lorena Gallo, as she is now known, said. By “them” she means the police who, sometime after 4:30 a.m., clutched their loins and went digging through the overgrown roadside grass for the missing member. They found it, put it on ice in a Big Bite hot dog box from a nearby 7-Eleven and rushed it to the hospital where in a nine-and-a-half-hour feat of urological and plastic surgery it was reattached and restored to (almost) full function.
These are the details everyone knows and the ones Lorena recites with the stoicism of the waiter at the Tortino Mare Italian restaurant who hours earlier had relayed the specials for us. It’s the actual story, she said — the one about a young immigrant who endured years of domestic violence, was raped by her husband that night, had nowhere to go and finally snapped — that she wanted to talk to me about.
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“Well it cuts like a knife/But it feels so right...”
LOL, good one.
“write” that. I really do know how to spell. I had a brain malfunction.
(I don’t have a granddaughter.)
Yep, hence my “gravitas” remark....
Big Bite hot dog box?
This had to be chosen as a joke. I mean, they were out searching beside the road for a detached weenie. LOL
Wow. I must have missed all the jokes and denigrating remarks aimed at the guy.
Cheers
Well, you are still here. You must like it.
Thank you
Hilarious parody is in the movie “Attack of the 5’2” women”. Every time I hear Bobbitt name I now think of that movie of it.
Thanks, I’ll have to round up a copy to watch.
I’m horrified by what she did.
But freeper men need to be consistent. I believe that if a man had raped them (or attempted) while they slept they would easily do the same thing to the rapist.
Sorry to hear that.
I did screw up on linking to the appropriate post, BUT FR DOES still have its long standing "Chat" area that can fairly easily be avoided by those with tender sensitivities.
If one can’t leave a marriage rapist, it’s probably better to shoot them.
Not excusing her response. Yes, she should have gotten away. She was very wrong to do what she did.
But if there were a story of an incapacitated soldier being raped by a man, every freeper man would be fine with him losing his member.
I think Rape has long had a Death Penalty associated with it.
Maybe not so much these days, but certainly in the near past.
Not sure what happens if one distinguishes among Rape-Rape, Date Rape and Marriage Rape.
"”Perhaps the wrong of rape has proven so difficult to articulate because the unquestionable starting point has been that rape is definable as distinct from intercourse, when for women it is difficult to distinguish them under conditions of male dominance.” ",
making things very nuanced and totally unclear.
Until you walk a mile in her shoes, you don’t know how much control he exerted over her.
There has apparently been a centuries old emphasis on chopping the “Beans” rather than the “Frank”.
Wait. What? I thought everything had to be posted to BREAKING NEWS!
(Do hope to have a granddaughter some day.)
Fortunately, she is not a vindictive person, she says.
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