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[pantryslut]

The girls in the office don't want to believe the Peterson verdict. Not that they think he's innocent, exactly, but they can't concieve of the crime in some way. They want alternate scenarios: why not get a divorce? Why not just leave and *not* get a divorce?

They can't stop trying to solve the problem. It's urgent. It gnaws at them. They talk about it with each other in high voices, shaking their heads over and over again. And they still can't solve it. They can't make it right.

The subtext is, of course: they're afraid. That someone they love perceives of them as an anchor, a weight that's dragging them down. "What more could he expect from life?" one of my cubicle-mates said.

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[trick.livejournal.com]

well, obviously, he expected to get away with it...

[avantpop.livejournal.com]

I'm still wondering if it was premediatted or did they get in a fight and an accident happened?

Two years ago, I didn't think he did it. He didn't seem like a monster and only a monster would chop his pregnant wife's head off. Then I read a paper about many cases where it is very common for men to lop off the head of the wive or girlfriend they just murdered -- they don't want to look at their faces.

But the guy is one cold dude to let his parents and siblings go into hock to pay for his expensive defense knowing he'd probably not get away with it.

It's always intersting too how parents will not believe it no matter what the evidence -- almost a denial of "there is no way I raised such a criminal freak."

[whipartist.livejournal.com]

There aren't many women in my office, and the few who are there are hardcore geeks.

Your description was vivid and insightful. I had never thought about how women might react to the verdict, but now I completely understand.