Buffalo News’ Jeff Simons Goes Off His Meds, Lapses into DV Rant
Maybe we should feel sorry for someone who can’t write about domestic violence in a more balanced and coherent way. Here’s the writer’s email, just in case: jsimon@buffnews.com ÂÂ
Brutality Between the Sexes
Jeff Simon
July 20 2010
Lovely day, Sunday. But I spent a horrifying day anyway. I just couldn’t seem to get away from the contemplation of male violence against women.
It wasn’t just Sandra Tan’s mind-blowing front-page story in The News about Muzzamil Hassan invoking Gandhian “satyagraha†and his supposed spousal abuse to explain why he’s never denied stabbing his wife to death and then cutting her head off. Nor was it Frank Rich’s smug and, in my opinion, quite errant column about Mel Gibson in the New York Times.
I innocently capped it all off by watching Michael Winterbottom’s already controversial film “The Killer Inside Me,†opening in Buffalo in the next few weeks. It’s an important film with some fine young movie stars (Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson) doing some of the gutsiest work of their professional lives. But there are a couple of scenes of male brutality against women that will, quite simply, be unwatchable for some audience members. I’ve been doing what I do for a living for four decades, and I still found those scenes so repugnant that they were difficult to watch.
The front-page Sunday story continues Hassan’s claim of “immense psychological abuse and humiliation during his seven-year marriage.†He also claims that a kind of reverse sexism denied his story being taken seriously….
Source: http://www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/columns/jeff-simon/article77715.ece
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