Relevant
Well, the progressive media is busy ignoring the in-so-many-ways over-hyped Scott Peterson trail, but I take issue with those who call the whole thing irrelevant.
The case that for a conglomeration of strange reasons captured national attention captured my attention, too.
According to a recent study by the Maryland Department of Health, HOMICIDE IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN.
(Now, there's something they don't tell you in What to Expect When You're Expecting).
It could have been me.
It could have been you.
Estimates of the percentage of pregnant women who are battered run as high as 25%.
That it took the Christmas disappearance of a beautiful middle class white woman to bring this fact to our attention doesn't make it irrelevant. This is our terror and, no, we weren’t more scared after the towers fell because as women, we have always been terrorized.
And so, swirling media attention notwithstanding, old man Arafat dead and Bush reelected, it's no surprise that so many waited held-breath to find out if even one smirking elite white man would be held accountable.
The murdered-drowned mother-goddess who washed up on the shore has a name. She is Laci Rocha. With child. She is 2,000 women every year in the U.S. alone. She is me. And she is you.
MISOGYNY: LOOK IT UP, STAMP IT OUT.
In a related story . . .
[Palestinian woman and child sitting on the rubble of their home, which was destroyed last Thursday.]
The case that for a conglomeration of strange reasons captured national attention captured my attention, too.
According to a recent study by the Maryland Department of Health, HOMICIDE IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN.
(Now, there's something they don't tell you in What to Expect When You're Expecting).
It could have been me.
It could have been you.
Estimates of the percentage of pregnant women who are battered run as high as 25%.
That it took the Christmas disappearance of a beautiful middle class white woman to bring this fact to our attention doesn't make it irrelevant. This is our terror and, no, we weren’t more scared after the towers fell because as women, we have always been terrorized.
And so, swirling media attention notwithstanding, old man Arafat dead and Bush reelected, it's no surprise that so many waited held-breath to find out if even one smirking elite white man would be held accountable.
The murdered-drowned mother-goddess who washed up on the shore has a name. She is Laci Rocha. With child. She is 2,000 women every year in the U.S. alone. She is me. And she is you.
MISOGYNY: LOOK IT UP, STAMP IT OUT.
In a related story . . .
[Palestinian woman and child sitting on the rubble of their home, which was destroyed last Thursday.]
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