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ginmar wrote this:

*Context, context, context. Discussing exceptional cases is a waste of time. Yeah, sure, they're different. But discuss rare phenomina often enough, and a weird thing starts to happen: people start inflating them, and trying to give them the sort of significance that happens in numbers. I'm talking here about the impulse that people have, when confronted with the stark fact of how badly women get treated how often, to alleviate that scary realization by trying to even out the scales.

I thought it was important enough to pass on. This isn't meant for anyone in my circle of friends--just something to think about, especially when you consider how much more attention people like Andrea Yates and Mary Kay Letourneau get than their male counterparts.