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"Charlie Sheen&amp;#039;s twisted travails and debauched behavior are nothing new. But the headlines about his most recent fall from grace\u2014pleading guilty to third-degree assault against wife Brooke Mueller Sheen\u2014have me alarmed. It&amp;#039;s not just his sentence: a paltry 30 days probation, 36 hours of anger management counseling and 30 days of rehab (which he will likely not serve). My issue is that nowadays he&amp;#039;s written off as a creep, pure and simple. Obviously he is, but it&amp;#039;s more than that. He&amp;#039;s a violent man who continually harms the women he&amp;#039;s involved with. And just like other celebrity cases, the more we focus on the outrageousness of these men-turned-caricatures, the less aware we are of what&amp;#039;s at the center of it all: violence against women.  It seems particularly resonant now, as the fame of Alabama&amp;#039;s Antoine Dodson spreads far and wide, thanks to the countless memes and remixes of his interview with a local TV news station. It&amp;#039;s easy to see why\u2014he&amp;#039;s enthrallingly candid on camera\u2014yet the fanfare dulls the case at hand: a man climbed into his sister&amp;#039;s window at night and attempted to rape her.  On top of all this, Salon&amp;#039;s advice guru Cary Tennis recently belched forth one of the most misguided columns I&amp;#039;ve ever read on the subject. After some wimpy lip-service to the seriousness of domestic violence, he encouraged a woman to stay in an abusive marriage. Rather than leave a man who\u2014although provoked\u2014beat her while she was pregnant, Tennis urges her to seek counseling and &amp;quot;go deeper&amp;quot; to understand and work the marriage bond.  If violence against women was an issue of the past, or even a minimal one at that, I think I&amp;#039;d be able to simply scoff at Sheen&amp;#039;s creepiness, and reveal in Dodson&amp;#039;s goofy protective antics. Maybe I could even come to terms with Tennis&amp;#039; point of view. But with the United Nations Development Fund for Women reporting that globally up to six out of every 10 women experience physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime, I&amp;#039;m simply left cold. \u2014Mandy Major, Associate Editor "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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