A READER writes:

I’m surprised that you have not commented on the July 14th airing of the show The Talk. The show features an all female panel, like The View, and after discussing the story of the Catherine Kieu, the woman who sexually mutilated her husband, they sit around and joke about it and say how fabulous and hysterical it is.

Laura writes:

I watch almost no television, including TV news, and don’t read men’s rights sites, where it has been widely discussed, so I was unaware of the story. As for the original episode (found in the link above) in which the women laugh at the violent mutilation of a man and Sharon Osbourne repeatedly replicates the whirring motion of a garbage disposal, it was not simply a joke as they later claim. Two of the women, Osbourne and Holly Robinson Peete, say in apparent seriousness that the violent mutilation of a man is sometimes justified. This is entirely in keeping with the boorishness of female daytime TV and the callousness, unbridled self-righteousness and sheer aggression toward men of modern feminism. Notice the female audience in the video of the original episode laughing and whooping at the mutilation story.

I understand that CBS received many complaints and Sharon Osbourne, who said what Kieu had done was “fabulous”and that she lights candles by the picture of Lorena Bobbitt, lamely apologized, while laughing and then attempting to cover up her laughter, acting as if she was too overcome with emotion to speak. Her apology was not sincere or convincing and should not be viewed as a legitimate reponse to complaints. She should be fired. Julie Chen also should be fired for her poor handling of the original episode and her own comments – she laughed loudly when an audience member yelled out, “That’ll teach ‘im.”

The Talk and The View are popular culture at their infantile worst. Plenty of ink has been spilled on the possible effects of violent television; very little, and none in the mainstream news, is devoted to the effect of these shows which encourage the female mob in its own form of aggression, masked by displays of affection and saccharine effusions.

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Sarah writes:

Do any of these talk show hosts have husbands, sons, grandsons? I have a son, and I could never joke about such an act. What message would that send to my son? Do they think violence against men is justified? How can they sit back and laugh at something so horrific and gruesome?! When I read about this story in the news I felt revolted. Even if the man had abused the woman, cheated on her, or what ever he did to incite her wrath….what she did was like something out of a morbid horror show. Women can’t advocate violence against men and in the same breath decry violence against women. We simply have to treat each other with dignity and respect no matter what the circumstances. Have people just plain lost their minds?

Laura writes:

No, they haven’t lost their minds. Women are trained in this reflexive feminism from early childhood. This is modern girlfriend culture, where brutality is a joke.  

Karen I. writes:

Holly Robinson Peete has a lot to say in public about her autistic son. In a 2007 interview with People magazine, she said the following:

With pessimism in her voice she said, ‘Unprompted, he will never say ‘I love you Mommy,’ or run to you and greet you at the front door.’ Something died in me the day RJ was diagnosed with autism.

Robinson Peete has no problem sharing her anger over a less than perfect child with the public. She seems to be lacking the maternal instinct to protect her child and instead cruelly places the most vulnerable member of her family in the spotlight. She is far from the only mother, celebrity or otherwise, to do this. It seems that for mothers like her, a disabled child loses any right their dignity or privacy. In the eyes of mothers like Robinson Peete there is nothing wrong with publicly expressing their anger and disappointment in their less than perfect offspring.

Sarah Palin deserves criticism for a number of things, but she has not (so far) failed to protect the dignity or privacy of her Down Syndrome child. Given the tell-all approach so many mothers of disabled children take these days under the pretense of things like “seeking support” or “advocacy”, she deserves some credit for that.

Dan R. writes:

The subject is indeed grotesque, but possibly worse when men begin to yuck it up. And worse yet, how about a pro-life doctor? Back around the time of the John Wayne Bobbitt mutilation I attended a benefit dinner for a pro-life organization. Seated next to me was the doctor, who made a couple of comments pertaining to the Bobbitt incident, trying just a little too hard to ingratiate himself with the women at the table on the order of “if he was cheating, he deserved it!” Annoyed at this little spectacle, I recounted to him a Paul Harvey segment I had recently heard on the radio. Just presenting the facts, straight and unadorned, Harvey told how a wife, possibly inspired by Lorena Bobbitt, had cut off her husband’s you-know-what. Her husband took a knife and literally cut off her arm. Continuing his straightforward tone he announced how the husband is in serious condition and “she’s dead.” End of story. 

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