Amazon Prime has a new series called Lorena, digging up the John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt case from the 1990s. For those who forgot, she is the woman who cut off her husband’s penis while he was asleep.
In the trailer, a voice asks, “What did he do to make her do something like that?” The answer they give is abuse. They claim he pushed and shoved her. Yet nobody ever asked, “What did she do to make him do something like that?” That question never gets asked when the victim is a man.
I do not advocate violence of any kind. Nobody should hit anyone. Male, female, or any of the ten thousand genders that activists have invented and the rest of us have yet to hear about.
Back then, I remember clearly how sick it was to watch women cheering for Lorena without knowing the facts. She toured the country for years afterward, giving speeches on “domestic violence” and getting standing ovations. She even went on Steve Harvey’s show and got the same treatment. Apparently, mutilating your sleeping husband is a ticket to fame, applause, and a platform. Makes you wonder if she was handing out advice on how to become a domestic abuser.
Her claims? That her husband cheated on her, had a drug and alcohol problem, and hit her. Even if that were true, if she feared for her life, why did she wait for him to come home from work? Why not leave? Why not call the police?
John Wayne Bobbitt worked three jobs. Two of them required periodic drug testing. Does anyone really believe a man working three jobs had the money, time, or energy to live the life she accused him of? He says Lorena used to hit him and mock his earnings. That never made the headlines.
But society’s conclusion was simple: it is never a woman’s fault. He “made” her do it.
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