BOOZED-UP GOP BIG BASHED ME, SAYS WIFE

New York Post ^ | December 22, 2004 | FREDRIC U. DICKER

[nickcarraway]

The New York Republican Party's top lawyer has been arrested on a charge of attacking his wife, The Post has learned.

Jeffrey Buley, 44, was arrested and arraigned in town court in Bethlehem, an Albany suburb where the couple owns a home, last month after being accused by his wife, Cheryl Ritchko-Buley, 40, of a drunken assault, official records show.

[Gabz]

Ditched him first time it happened

Good for you - it took me 4 years, which was not good. But I did learn a lot from the experience.

[doug from upland]

I hate hyphenated names.

...Doug-fromUpland

[MarIboro]

Lighten up...no on here really advocates beating women....good lord.

Gotta go, it's time for my hyphenated surnamed wife's nightly beating ;)

[dakine]

it's time for my hyphenated surnamed wife's nightly beating ;)

hahaha

[StolarStorm]

Perhaps hyphenated women are more likely to beat their husbands. Statistical studies have demonstrated that woman are far more violent in the home then men are. Beating a hyphenated chick might just be self defense.

[Hi Heels]

TAKE A CHILL PILL. IT WAS A JOKE. Egads, no one around here advocates beating women.

Spanking, yes. Beating, no.

[Hi Heels]

I'm not even married, but based on this thread, I'm hyphenating. Hi Heels-A-Go-Go....

[Gabz]

Bless you!!!!!!!!



Some of us with hyphen names don't do it out of disrespect for our husbands or preferring our careers over them.

BTW - what are Birkenstocks?

[petitfour]

Yup. And if the woman does it just right, then the husband won't be gettin' hisself drunk no mo.

(hubby's grandma beat her drunk husband with a broom. First, she sewed him into the bedsheets. it worked like a charm. his great grandma did the same thing, but she used an iron skillet instead of a broom. i'm not sure it ended great grandpa's drinkin'.)

[Gabz]

Thank you.

I realized later that it was not a joke about wife beating, but rather the feminist habit of not taking a husband's name, or doing it grudgingly with the hyphen.

Having had an abusive spouse, and having a (inadvertent) hyphenated name, I was a bit quick on the tigger.

[StolarStorm]

Article on the issue:

Women are more violent

My anecdotal observation bears this out as well.

[Gabz]

Funny. Guys can make such remarks but you are getting beat up for it.

No man makes such a comment and gets away with it from me.

I later recognized the meaning behind the comment and apologized for not doing so at first.

[SweetCaroline]

No the article is not about me. While I was reading the article I saw a post where someone accused the woman of being drunk too, I was not drunk when my husband beat me up.

[kitkat]

***Exsqueeze me.....if my spouse had me in a headlock and punched me in the face, I don't think I would be trying to "work things out" with them!***

If he did it once, he'll do it again. I'm not sure how anyone "punches" with an open hand as the article said, but he sure would never have the chance to do it to me again. I feel sorry for their daughters.

[Bushforlife]

You yourself pointed out that your main motivation for not taking your husbands' name in your professional life was that you wanted to impress others. Apparently, that means a lot to you.

A conservative believes that you don't change hundreds of years of tradition, and a system that works, in order to be fashionable or to impress others.

The only thing outrageous here is that instead of responding logically to the discussion, you chose to resort to name-calling ["newbie"] and accusations about DU. I guess your view is that anytime there's a disagreement then the person who has been here longer must be right?

You can pose as a conservative, but the fact remains that you choose to ignore a tradition followed by generations, and to do so to further your professional reputation. Kind of like saying Happy Holidays in public, but Merry Christmas at home. God forbid that you should have to explain that you now have a married name; that kind of old fashioned retro thinking could hurt you in certain professional circles, I guess.

[Ryan Spock]

...I was a bit quick on the tigger...

[Aquinasfan]

(he put his wife's last name ahead of his own)!

In the words of Nigel Fawlty, "she'll have to sew them on first!"

[NeoCaveman]

Women with hyphenated surnames often deserve beating.

Hypenated women are a sign that the couple suffer from RINOism.

[mplsconservative]

Thanks Gabz for understanding!

Birkenstocks are waaaay overpriced shoes and sandals that overpaid, ivory tower dwellers wear to walk about in superiority.

Birkenstock is a specialty store where they display the shoes but don't display the prices on them. You have to get the price list from the counter. Be still my heart! I just can't justify $100 plus for a pair of Dr. Scholl looking sandals. I love suede, sort of Earth shoe looking clogs (I'm of that vintage) but I refuse to pay $200 plus for them.

I must say, a lot of the shoes are kind of cute, but are out of my price range now that my hyphenated self quit my DISRECTFUL TO MY HUSBAND hyphenated name career.

Sorry for the caps. Just copying another FReeper's style - heh-heh.

Merry Christmas Gabz!

[NeoCaveman]

And that goes double for my ultra-lib, hyphenated-surname brother-in-law (he put his wife's last name ahead of his own)!

How did that happen? Did she castrate him?