"We are speaking out on behalf of a woman who was victimized by her husband. The woman struck her husband and threw a glass at him. But we believe she should be acquitted because she was a battered woman. The battering committed by her husband consisted of ignoring her and working late."
"This is not the only case we are working on," said Ms. Hyphenated-Lastname. "We also are seeking a new trial for a Canadian woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death after a quarrel. The boyfriend had never abused her. But we feel that the woman had been battered by other men, and so she should be able to claim Battered Woman's Syndrome to get away with killing this man."
Dear Readers: We interrupt our regularly scheduled POW parody to bring you this important announcement. In our POW parodies, we have tried to poke fun at some of the more absurd claims made by feminists. Some people say that this satire is too absurd, that it goes too far. However, the two cases referred to above are not satire. They are real arguments being made by real feminists. They were reported in the George Will column of July 18, 1996. In fact, the "ignoring equals battering" argument is being made by Lenore Walker, a leading advocate of the "Battered Women" defense.
One poster once commented about my POW parodies:
> I don't know what you guys think you are proving by inventing feminist >points of view which sound silly. If you don't like the *real* feminist >point of view, then why don't you rebutt it?
Well, these two cases above just go to show that the real things that some feminists say are wilder and weirder than any effort to lampoon them ever could be. You try to write something satirically absurd about feminists, and the real feminists outdo you!