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Hi, Chris. I recently got caught up in a discussion of Amy in another
conf, basically addressing the issue of what difference it makes if
Joey -did- have a relationship with her; my thesis is it makes a
big difference, particularly if she was sexually abused by her father,
as she's indicated she was (thugh she won't discuss details).
 
Here's the text from my previous post:
 
I've been following the Amy Fisher story for a while; it's
amazing how folks get riled up by her - most people seem
to think she's a spoiled-selfish slut and deserves what
she's got.
 
But it seems to me that being spoiled, selfish or a slut
is -not criminal.- And Amy, like many of the women who make
their livings in the sex industry, claims to have been
abused by her father -- and that makes for an interesting
psychodrama in terms of Joey Buttafuoco and his wife (her
vctim), Mary Jo, as proxies for her real parents. (Amy
claims she had a sexual relationship with Joey; he denies
it.)
 
If I may elaborate and speculate just a bit, and indulge myself
in what some others may term "psychobabble" --
 
Let's say that Amy's father -was- sexually abusive, in a way
that stopped somewhere short of actual intercourse, but
abusive enough to confuse and repel her, and place her "in
competition" with her mother. At 16, she meets Joey Buttafuoco,
who replaces her father - and in shooting Mary Jo, Amy is
effectively "shooting" her sexual-rival mother.
 
In this context, Amy's act makes a certain amount of twisted
sense. It doesn't excuse the act, but IMHO, especially
considering that she is a minor, it expands the culpability
to other parties, Joey Buttafuoco in particular.
 
This is entirely dependent on whether Amy is being truthful
about her relationship with Joey. And I am inclined to believe
her - the idea that she just went nutso over the lardy Italian,
with no encouragement from him, and then took it upon herself
to shoot his wife seems incomprehensible, particularly since
she has no history of being obssessive (as did Caroline
Warmus) or violent.

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