From a reader:

Jonah–
Thanks for keeping an eye on the Mattis story.
Ya know, it’s all just so puzzling–let me get this straight: a stressed-out abused woman administers an agonizing death to her sleeping husband by lighting his bed on fire (as re-enacted by Farrah Fawcett in “The Burning Bed”), and we’re supposed to be sympathetic.
Or three women get their revenge on the men who’ve wronged them— the secretaries in “Nine to Five” who kidnap their boss and hold him hostage in his underwear suspended from the ceiling in a harness all day long for the criminal offenses of ogling them and sending them on trivial errands, or the betrayed wives (in “The First Wives’ Club”),one of whom has her husband kidnapped at gunpoint by gangsters and taken as a hostage to a deserted building where she dictates to him the terms of their divorce—and we’re supposed to find this comically satisfying.
But when a man who has devoted his whole life to the defense of his country, facing down danger and death over and over again, and training his troops in such a way that they will stand the best chance of returning home alive to their families—when he speaks to an in-house audience in a non-serious way of taking satisfaction from ending the lives of terrorists and tyrants IN COMBAT, there are people who want him to suffer public humiliation and to offer a groveling apology for his lack of sensitivity.
Help me out here—will Jane Fonda star in this movie too?
[Name withheld]
proud mother of 2nd Lt. [Name withheld], USMC