Here’s a little background on Lynndie England, the good-time girl in the Abu Ghraib prison torture incident:
Spc. England frequently visited Graner, a one-time Pennsylvania prison guard. There are published reports Graner had a history of domestic violence.
CBS News has learned England and Graner, both divorced, were involved in a romantic relationship in Iraq and that England is four months pregnant with Graner’s child.
So she’s soon to be a mother, and she gets off on violent men. She hails from a trailer park in West Virginia, the state that elected a member of the KKK to represent them in the US Senate. It all sort of fits together, doesn’t it?
Of course it does, and appropos my last post, check Donna Britt:
Mom’s Day notwithstanding, old stereotypes of women as viscerally compassionate peacekeepers are being challenged everywhere. Violence in the United States remains overwhelmingly male-dominated. Studies conducted by the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire in 1975, 1985 and 1992 found that domestic abuse rates were equal between husbands and wives. In fact, evidence suggested that abuse of wives by husbands is decreasing while abuse of husbands by wives is increasing. The nation’s No. 1 movie, “Mean Girls,” depicts a teeny-bopper swept up in the vicious, back-stabbing world of high school cliques.
Cruelty is not a gender issue.