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How would we categorize this character?


For doing what she did, wrong no doubt as it downright was? Or just perhaps someone who went crazy due to suffering abuse but overstepped the line? Cheers.

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You should watch the Amazon Prime docuseries.

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it caused me to avoid chicks for a while... that was brutal what she did.

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Her character strangely or not even makes an appearance in "Natural Born Killers" (1994).

Also, I couldn't help but think Abe Sada also, the film and "In Realm of the Senses" (1976) as well from Japan, Ai No Corrida is also how its known by.

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She's the woman every man fears. She's a monster of the Id.

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Good/Evil, Black/White, Right/Wrong, these are all grey areas that aren't just a simple one or the other.

Did she do a bad thing. Yes. Is she a bad person? If her claims of abuse were true, and it court it seemed like they were, then no, she isn't a bad person.

A lot of people seem to think that castration is a good punishment for rapists, so since she claimed her raped her on more than one occasion, is she a hero? Lorena wasn't the only woman John hit. He was arrested in cases involving 2 other women, one his wife at the time. So, I'm going to say that in my opinion, Lorena is not evil at all.

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Maybe you're right, I didn't know she was also a victim of "you know what" although it was at least rumoured.

Was her ultimate deed influenced by the Japanese film "Ai no Corrida" ("In Realm of the Senses") (1976)? Or "I Spit on Your Grave" (1978)?

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I doubt it. I mean if someone uses something to hurt you, chances are you will try to remove that threat. Apparently there were threats from him that if she left or divorced him he could still find her and have sex with her whenever. I don't think she would need to watch a movie to be inspired to do what she did.

I didn't know she was also a victim of "you know what"


Are you trying to say rape? Domestic violence?

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The first one, sexual violence.

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But then still, why go for his male sexual organ like that?

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As in, why are male penises really so significant in that sense? In order to later you know actually come across such an idea and cut one off?

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But then still, why go for his male sexual organ like that?
If you don't understand why someone would do that after they've been raped (you can say rape, it's not a swear word.) repeatedly by someone, then I don't know what to say to you.


As in, why are male penises really so significant in that sense? In order to later you know actually come across such an idea and cut one off?
If he was raping he with other objects she may have just stabbed him.

Look, I'm not in her head. I don't know what she was thinking when she cut of his penis. I'm thinking she was not in her right mind, wanted to stop the hurt. She thought that that would stop it.

Here, I just did a quick search and found this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/arts/television/lorena-bobbitt-documentary-jordan-peele.html

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Mate, I know it isn't a "swear" word of course, I just, for my own reasons (more on that later!) don't feel comfortable in outright typing it but point is yes I know.

Actually I think I do understand, and she was repeatedly a victim of it? OK fair enough.

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I like to think that for all my flaws I am not THAT naĂŻve in life mate but fair enough, I get the picture.

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And lots of victims of such a deed don't themselves go out of their way to cut off a man's offending organ like that. And it can be as much related to law as it can perhaps with them either thinking its still cruel, not worth the trouble or some people not having the guts to do it.

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She was definitely fncked up doing what she did. Even if the abuse was true.

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I made a thread on her myself over here around 5 years ago. )

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Funny thing now is people pay doctors to do what she did and they could just have her do it for free.

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Well... and how many times HAVE we heard this argument, paying or free, particularly when someone is forced into it against their will?

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Dignity, honour, health etc, priceless, you can't buy it with money apparently.

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There's no price on being mentally ill and allowing someone to chop your genitals off to try and be something you'll never be.

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That too perhaps.

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On a somewhat different yet perhaps related note. A matter like this also makes one wonder, just look at how many different ways humans tend to hurt, violate, abuse, destroy etc themselves and each other, there seems to be little to no limit there.

You have physical abuse involving beatings, you have cutting off body parts, murders also exist in life, various aspects to sexual abuse and sexual violence, with the most common examples being what is done by male perpetrators mostly. You have shouting and bullying. Yes almost all things considered, save for bits of self defence, no doubt wrong and bad, but some are worse than others. Some are also less than usual than others. But it all happens in this world and life, and has been for centuries.

And it isn't a matter of good versus evil or good guys versus bad guys like you often see in the movies where good guys win and evil gets it. Life is more complex and sadly far less optimistic than that.

IN FILMS however, I have learned to often see things in either simple or complex ways but without life's gritty reality. Hence why I got fixated occasionally whilst also admiring the film, but not getting off in general on that or other stuff if you get what we mean. Thought provoking stuff, and it DOES make us ponder in ADDITION to being ALSO shocked!

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She's a psycho bitch. He might've been a jerk, but I do not for one minute believe the abuse claims. Even if they were true (which they are obviously not), it does not in any way excuse her decision to maim another person. She's despicable.

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