[lbo-talk] feminist bookstore

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Fri Oct 19 16:14:23 PDT 2007


Dennis Claxton wrote:
>> "My problem with this one is, when I see this drumhead, I see a
>> woman's face. A woman's face on Super Bowl Sunday."
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> What's the latest word on the Super Bowl and domestic violence
> story? Snopes says it's false but I remember reading FAIR debunking
> the debunkers. Anybody know?
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>
As far as I know, there's no systematic research that supports the claim. It was originally an anecdote offered by someone who ran a domestic violence shelter ("it sure seems like we get a lot of cases on Super Bowl weekend"). That said, it's certainly a testable hypothesis; archival data on domestic violence incidences on any given day of the year should be available.

Miles



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