Sorry for being unclear -- I'm referring to these parts:
> And, if you want to kill your ex-girlfriend, there's really no substitute for a ball-peen hammer.
> (Maybe they've never had ex-girlfriends. Or maybe they killed them with icepicks instead.)
> And, if you want to kill your ex-girlfriend, there's really no substitute for a ball-peen hammer.
> (Maybe they've never had ex-girlfriends. Or maybe they killed them with icepicks instead.)
My gut level guess, is this being an extremely old argument, the headline for this one was adjacent to a Reiser headline, so its more of a bad taste style of the times than a long term trend or hidden social bias.
I'm not sure what Hans Reiser has to do with anything and it's a little strange that you brought him up. Wikipedia says Nina Reiser's disappearance was in 2006, a year after this post was made.
On the other hand I think we are going to have to disagree on your first paragraph. I think you have a perfectly good axe, I just wouldn't grind it there. That component of the original article sucks as a writing strategy without bringing male/female drama into the picture clouding the overall issue of using images of violence inappropriately. I wouldn't downvote you for it, but someone apparently is doing so, which is too bad.