There have been a flurry of posts lately tackling the issue of social equality between men and women, i.e. the real glass ceiling is at home. I bookmarked the article that link goes to a few days ago, meaning to come back and patch together a coherent post about it, but of course, Bitch PhD beat me to it. And meanwhile I got all side tracked being horrified by this article in my Ms. - "A troubling Supreme Court decision weakens women's protection from abusers." Despite having a restraining order against her estranged husband, when Simon Gonzales drove off with their three daughters the Castle Rock, Colorado police department refused to grant Jessica Gonzales's pleas to go after him. Over eight hours later they discovered all three girls' dead in his trunk. When Ms. Gonzales sued the police department for refusing to enforce her restraining order, the U.S. Supreme Court declared, "We do not believe that ...Colorado law truly made enforcement of restraining orders mandatory." As if restraining orders for domestic violence weren't already enforced in a half-assed way, now the Supreme Court has essentially made them a worthless piece of paper.