Wisconsin advocates for domestic violence victims are blasting a joke in last month’s Reader’s Digest magazine that makes light of a man who killed a woman with a golf club.
Police find the man in an apartment holding a 5-iron over the woman’s “lifeless body.” When a detective asks the man how many times he hit her, the man replies, “I don’t know. Five … maybe six … Put me down for a five.”
The joke, which was submitted to the magazine, doesn’t explain the relationship between the man and woman. But at least two domestic violence victim advocates have written e-mails to the magazine criticizing the decision to print the joke. University Health Services, which provides medical services to University of Wisconsin-Madison students, has sent e-mail to its listserv members alerting them to the joke, too.