Lorena
7/10
I just
finished watching the Amazon docu-series Lorena and holy shit John
Wayne Bobbitt is a shitbird. I learned a lot of new stuff watching
this. As far as I knew from the story a wife, Lorena Bobbitt, got
upset at her husband John one night and cut his dick off, threw it
out a car window, and dude went on to become the 90's version of
famous. There was so much more to this story. When I watch these new
documentaries that come out now not only are they filmed and produced
better than they've ever been, but the series aspect gives the story
time to breathe and actually explore the personal as well as social
aspects of what they are trying to convey. That is probably the
smartest sounding sentence I will ever type. When this case first
happened I remember thinking “I wonder what he did” instead of
what a shit ton of guys did and wanted her killed or beaten for what
she did.
This
series goes back and forth through time. It shows actual court
footage, interviews with Lorena and John from the past and present,
and the people that worked on the court cases. Yeah. I did not know
that there was more than one. The second trial took place to see if
she was Virginia's version of temporarily insane. I did not know that
she ended up spending 45 days in a mental institution. This series
pointed out how badly handled domestic abuse cases were and still are
till this day. Throughout the marriage John raped, beat, and mentally
abused Lorena. As I watched this I kept asking myself “How is he
free to do interviews?!” It's not like he abused her and got away
with it. Well, he did. But he also abused other women after her. Oh,
another thing Cam told me about this and I was still shocked when I
watched: after he got his dick put back on and did a porn film he got
another surgery to get it bigger and they fucked up the operation.
Talk about spitting in the face of god!
Later
in this John talks about abuse he grew up with being the only White
family on a street full of Black people. Oh, whah! Deal with that
shit. What you don't do is grew up to abuse people. Plenty of people
have grown up in houses where they were physically abused and did not
grow up to do that to other people. I got my ass kicked all the time
but not once did I think it was okay to hit a woman. This guy does
not sound bright either. If you think he sounds dumb when they show
clips of him when this shit was all happening he has not gotten any
brighter in the decades since. I know at the time there were a lot of
jokes made about this case (which they show) and people were more
concerned with a dudes dick than the reason she cut it off in the
first place. In this they also talk about how afraid women are to
leave an abuser and people ask “Why don't they just leave?” like
it is that easy. If you have ever lived in a house with abuse you
personally know it is not as easy as just leaving. Nicole Brown left
and was gutted by OJ Simpson. It literally takes the community
helping a lot of women in these situations to escape. You have to
have friends you can talk to and not judge you. A police force that
takes you seriously. A government that has programs in place and
somewhere to go for you and/or you and your children. There is a
national hotline to use when shit gets squirrely. 1-800-799-SAFE
(7233)
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