Otherwise, you’ve summed it up well.  The hilarity (again, such as it is) stems from the innovation.

Thanks for the mansplain. Obviously my feminist spine is preventing me from laughing along the way you guys are able to.

edit: Given orange’s subsequent nasty comments, scratch my parenthetical comments…

(And I agree with the spirit of, and the facts of, orangdesperado’s comment. Based on your other, previous, comments in other threads at this fine establishment, DP, I wager you do too.

 I don’t know about you but I take comfort in that.)

In the meantime, we notice that this fella performed this commonplace atrocity in an uncommonly interesting way: with his own hair.  To which, mixed in with our shame and horror that such behavior exists, we react with our well-honed sense of the absurd.  Dunno about you, but I’ve never seen anyone before who is accused of strangling someone with his own long, matted hair.  I think I’d react in a similar way to someone who smothered someone by pinching shut their mouth and nostrils with his toes.

It’s just not something you see every day.  Unlike your more everyday, garden-variety crimes of passion.  I’m glad your sensibilities are not yet so jaded as to dull the pain you feel at other people’s suffering; really, the world needs many, many more like you.

But some of us are a bit beaten down by the awful things in life, and you’re gonna find black comedy and gallows humor everywhere you turn when you spend time in Western society.  Rail against it if you feel you must, but there it is.  Not all of us have the fortitude to continue in life taking everything so very seriously, especially the things that are actually beyond our individual capacity to change.  Like humanity’s propensity for violence against itself.

And I’m relieved to know that you probably won’t be counted in the number of people giggling at my own funeral.  Somebody’s gotta show some decent solemnity, by gum.

( * sarcasm* )

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you commenters ? The ugly truth is that intimate partner violence is affecting someone that you know, someone that you are friends with, someone who is your relative, or neighbour, or coworker, or employer or teacher, etc. and/or — gasp — someone who is part of your underground/subculture/collective/maker’s faire/burningman/LARP/rational skeptics/whatever group.

I know that we want to believe that domestic violence only happens to the “other”. Sadly it is across the board, dumb republicans do it, and so do radical leftists with Phds. The people who it happens to don’t talk about, because sometimes other people think its FUNNY or deserved or (insert excuse here why it is not as bad as the victims says it was).

Very ashamed of you today, BB’ers.

That is quite a name. . .