Dear reader, in the course of going about your day today did you
somehow manage to forget that we are inching ever closer towards some
sort Handmaid’s Tale style dystopian nightmare run by sexist racist
morons? First, let us congratulate you, and then shake you out of your
reverie by telling you about the latest horrible thing that has happened
in (duh) Florida.
No, not banning Fifty Shades of Grey
from public libraries for being too porny, this other thing where a
Florida judge has decided that there will be no new trial for this nice
mother of two, Marissa Alexander, who will serve her 20 years in jail
for shooting in the direction of
her abusive husband, which she did because she couldn’t get to her cell
phone or escape because she had run away from him into the garage only
to discover that the garage door was broken.
Well lady, Florida would like to remind you that you could have escaped your attacker “through the front or back door,”
and also? Going back in the house armed with a gun (where she
presumably would have had to go in order to escape through the front or
back door, but whatever, we didn’t expect this to make any sense and so
far we’re not disappointed) is not “consistent with someone in genuine fear of his or her life.” READ MORE »
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