Looks like the thread title is missing a punctuation mark. Should it be
**Woman sets fire to husband’s genitals **
or
**Woman sets fire to husbands’ genitals **
or
**Woman sets fire to husbands, genitals **
?
I had the same thought. 
Then that called to mind the Carrie Underwood song where she thinks her man is cheating, and so she beats the hell out of his truck.
Did she also burn someone’s genitals? (Sorry–just not getting the reference here…)
There was a time that she had the tabloid nickname of ‘firecrotch’.
The 2000 and 2001 reports on Family Violence in Canada (Statistics Canada) are insightful when looking at this. http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/Statcan/85-224-X/85-224-XIE.html . Let’s start with spousal killings using weapons in the general population, and then move on to the aboriginal community.
Obviously there is a difference between a slap, a knock down slug fest, and a knife fight. On average, women are smaller than men, so when it comes to severe physical altercations, women have to use weapons to equalize the size difference. That’s why when it comes to death caused by a weapon (7% of total spousal killings), men are more likely to be killed by their spouses than women (17% to 5%).
The incidence of spousal assault against aboriginal women is six times higher than the general female population. The degree of severity is also a great deal higher. The frequency and severity leads to the spousal homicide rate against aboriginal women being eight times higher than that of the general female population, and the use of weapons by women in severe domestic violence leads to the spousal homicide rate against aboriginal men to be more than eighteen times higher than the general male population.
In summary, once the level of spousal violence gets severe, there is an increase in the frequency of the use of weapons by women to equalize the size difference, and the increase in the use of weapons increases the rate of killing of men. Since the level of spousal violence in aboriginal communities is already severe, the frequency of use of weapons by aboriginal women is high, and the rate spousal of killing of aboriginal men is also high. It really comes down to aboriginal communities often being horrifically violent places – I can’t begin to communicate the utter hopelessness and the degree of depraved violence that I have come across in dealing with aboriginal matters.
Note that this does not mean that more aboriginal women kill their spouses than aboriginal man kill their spouses. In fact, aboriginal men kill about twice as many spouses as do aboriginal women (as opposed to general population men killing about three times more spouses as do general poplulation women). What really stands out with these figures is that although aboriginals form only approximately 4% of Canada’s population, aboriginal spousal killings of females by males constitutes 14% of all spousal killings in Canada committed against women by men, and whopping 22% of all spousal killings in Canada committed against men by women. Thus my comment that “The exception to this is the rate of murder by aboriginal women against aboriginal men, which is way up there.”
The prime factors leading to aboriginal communities being violent places include economic and social depravation, alcohol and substance abuse, and an inter-generational cycle of violence. The many causes of those are a subject for another thread.
Lyrics to “Burning Love”.
Lorena Bobbitt had a wiener.
Did hospital staff neglect to extinguish the bits of him that were aflame?
Actually, one of my canoe crew’s competitors is “Women on Fire”.
I hope they don’t try to defeat us next year by setting my wiener on fire.
The humour might be a male/fire v. female/water thing: Storm in a C-cup - 130,000 boobs lost at sea.
For a while, but only because she nicked it, and then she lost it in a drive-by tossing. Then the cops found it, so they had an extra wiener between them until they returned it to John who had it sewed back on so he should show everyone how well his new frankenwiener worked.
But at least she didn’t light it on fire like a molotov cock-tail before tossing it.
Penis.
The boobs lost at sea was kind of funny. The male/fire thing I think is only funny in the same way that anything involving men and crotch injuries are – which is the same reason we sometimes just can’t help laughing whenever we see some poor schlep double over as he takes a shot to the dudes by an an unfortunately aimed golf ricochet or complete lack of coordination and forethought when shoving a loaded gun down his pants.
Wow. Fucking wow. Thank you, and I gotta say, I don’t know how you do it. Burnout must be about 6 months in an environment like that.
Burnout? Fortunately, my wiener has not burst into flames yet. But if it ever were to, y’all have my permission to laugh your flaming ass off about it.
From your job…I thought you said you worked worked with domestic violence among the native population…and I completely missed my own pun!
Thank you for posting those stats Muffin.
As for the sexist response to this sort of thing, to me it feels like a bit of a holdover from when women basically had no recourse when it came to adultery or abuse– times (and current locations) where men could divorce, beat or cheat on their wives as they pleased but not vice versa. Overall, I find it as funny as prison rape (as in, not).
I don’t find the incident itself funny, either. I’ll thank you kindly not to ascribe motives to my response, and that goes for everyone else who has done so. I understand that some people don’t appreciate black humor but that’s no reason to persist in being ignorant about it. While the primary reason being bandied about (finding it funny because the man probably did something terrible to deserve it) may be a reason for some, it’s hardly the only one, or even the main one, for most people. Some of the elements have already been mentioned by others. For me, personally, it’s a bit of keeping oneself sane by joking about a terrible situation coupled with an element of “there, but for the grace of God, go I.” To be clear, I find what this woman did to be reprehensible and I dope she spends time in prison for it. regardless of what the victim may have done to provoke it.
Actually, I think Bruce Springteen is more apt:
There is NO excuse for doing something like this to someone, I don’t care WHAT they’ve done.
And yes, there is a double standard that suggests the woman must have some legitimate justification for her violence, whereas if a man did the same to a woman, not necessarily.
Poor guy. (I don’t care WHAT, if ANYTHING, he did)
With 85% of his body burned, that man is not long for this world.
I’m sorry, this is a fucked up tragedy. The woman is insane in one flavor or another, either completely psychotic and deluded or narcissistic and sociopathic. The man may have done something to trigger the violence or he might have done nothing at all. If he’d abused her, he should have been brought up on charges, not set on fire.
For me, the humor lasts only until my brain processes that this was a real person, not a cartoon.