{"id":1202,"date":"2007-08-16T12:05:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T17:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:38:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:38:34","slug":"dead-until-proven-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1202","title":{"rendered":"Dead Until Proven Innocent"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one of the funniest recent episodes of South Park, <\/em>Stan’s little brother Ike’s kindergarten teacher seduces the toddler, gets caught, and, in a press conference before the trial, declares to be sorry, and that “…I am an alcoholic”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The crowd of reporters, cops and specators nod their heads, and eventually cheer the woman as she goes to rehab.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was funny (in South Park’s <\/em>sick little way) – and pretty dead-on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As it were.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But we’ll get back to that.<\/p>\n

———-<\/p>\n

Domestic abuse, of course, is no joke.\u00a0 People get killed.\u00a0 Although research shows that men and women are about equally likely to initiate<\/em> domestic violence, women are more-usually injured or killed in these incidents.\u00a0 Nobody is denying that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And it’s galling to have to make sure I’m understood on that point, since if I don’t some moron will pipe up “ah, so you condone <\/em>domestic violence”.\u00a0 Far from it.\u00a0 But pointing out, for example, that women commit any<\/em> violence, much less initiate their fair share of it, inflames some of this issue’s dogmatists.\u00a0 And when\u00a0 you start trying to address some of the problems in the system itself<\/em>, some of them get downright apoplectic.<\/p>\n

Those problems are pretty serious, though:<\/p>\n