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Is spousal abuse funny? (RTE online)

  • 16-06-2008 3:37pm
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    haz
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    Under the "Craic" section of RTE's online news today is a story headlined "Man kidnaps ex-girlfriend to wash dishes" (http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0616/italy.html), accompanied by a photograph of a woman ironing captioned "There are some men that still believe a woman's place is in the home".

    Apparently "the 43-year-old man dragged the woman out of a pub in the port city of Genoa, shoved her into a car and took her to his home where he made her iron and wash dishes after threatening her."

    Taking "craic" to mean fun, humour etc (as the other articles in this section tend to be), isn't this a sad reflection of editorial standards of laddish insensitivity?


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