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MEDFORD, Wis. (WSAW/Gray News) - A Wisconsin couple is recovering after a bear attacked them while they were inside their home.
The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office reports a husband and wife called deputies on Friday night to inform them of what happened.
The couple said the incident started when they noticed a bear outside of their home eating from a bird feeder, as reported by WSAW .
They opened a window and yelled for the bear to go away. However, the bear then turned and charged at the house. The couple said it broke through a window and into their home.
Deputies reported the man and woman said they tried to fight off the bear while stabbing it with a kitchen knife.
Eventually, the husband was able to retrieve a gun, and he shot and killed the bear, according to the sheriff’s office. The couple was injured and suffered several bites in the attack. Their children were also home, but they were sleeping and unharmed.
Authorities said the bear was an adult female and appeared to have one cub nearby.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources also responded to the couple’s home and took possession of the bear for testing.
Copyright 2022 WSAW via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

KCRG 501 2nd Ave SE Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 (319) 399-5999
A Gray Media Group, Inc. Station - © 2002-2022 Gray Television, Inc.
More stories to check out before you go
MEDFORD, Wis. (WSAW/Gray News) - A Wisconsin couple is recovering after a bear attacked them while they were inside their home.
The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office reports a husband and wife called deputies on Friday night to inform them of what happened.
The couple said the incident started when they noticed a bear outside of their home eating from a bird feeder, as reported by WSAW .
They opened a window and yelled for the bear to go away. However, the bear then turned and charged at the house. The couple said it broke through a window and into their home.
Deputies reported the man and woman said they tried to fight off the bear while stabbing it with a kitchen knife.
Eventually, the husband was able to retrieve a gun, and he shot and killed the bear, according to the sheriff’s office. The couple was injured and suffered several bites in the attack. Their children were also home, but they were sleeping and unharmed.
Authorities said the bear was an adult female and appeared to have one cub nearby.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources also responded to the couple’s home and took possession of the bear for testing.
Copyright 2022 WSAW via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

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We’re in a bubbling cauldron of gender issues, and they’re boiling to the surface. To contribute to this heated discussion, we think there’s no better time to take wife beater , the slang term for that ubiquitous sleeveless white shirt, to the dump for good.
But, how did the violent term become associated with a piece of clothing anyway? For that, we take an etymological and sartorial tour through time.
This literal sense connecting wife beater and “husband who beats his wife” was first recorded in 1855 (according to the Online Etymology Dictionary). And, the same sense made its first appearance in The New York Times in 1880. No connection yet between violence against women and t-shirts, though.
However, in 1947, a brutal crime story went viral and indirectly associated a violent male wife beater with the sleeveless white undershirt. A Detroit native named James Hartford Jr. was arrested for beating his wife to death. Across the country, readers gaped at a reprinted photo of Hartford in a baked-beans-stained undershirt with the caption “the wife-beater.”
Around the same time, Hollywood reinforced this connection between lower class, brutish men and the undershirt. In A Streetcar Named Desire , Stanley Kowalski (while wearing the undershirt) shoves Blanche Dubois to the ground.
The term wife beater shirt still hadn’t taken hold, but the shirt went by other slang names that revealed additional stereotypes. The shirt was a mark of immigrant status. Kowalski (from the movie) was Polish, yet the white tank was often linked to poor Italian-American men too. Slang names for the undershirt at this time were “guinea tee” or “dago tee,” using ethnic slurs to define the shirt as something poor, dirty “others” wore.
The practical reasons for wearing the shirt helped boost its popularity in the 1980s and ‘90s: tanks are inexpensive, comfortable, and easy to work (out) in. Another boost came in 1992, when Dolce & Gabbana sent a militia of muscleshirt-wearing models down the runway.
In a 2001 interview with The New York Times , Jesse Shiedlower, then principal editor of Oxford English Dictionary’s American office, said wife beater started signifying the undershirt around 1997 with the rise of “rap, gay, and gang subcultures.” In 1998—a year after the term’s introduction into the American lexicon— The Orlando Sentinel published an article about parents’ concern with the offensive slang term. One year later, the Washington Post wrote about the “‘in’ shirt with the outre name.”
Teens and 20-somethings dismissed it as a funny term and used it mockingly. But, while they mocked the term, they wore the shirt. For them, the shirt gave the wearer an “alternative rock” or “Calvin Klein waif” persona.
The wearing of the shirt isn’t the problem. But, because the link between the shirt and the wife beater name has become solidified over the past 20 years or so, the layers of meaning behind the words wife beater —both mocking and literal—are lost on a lot of people. The New York Times reported that o ne graduate studen t, who’d used the term colloquially for years, was shocked after being reminded what the literal meaning refers to: “Now that you mention it, I’m like, damn!”
For the many others out there who use the term wife beater and think of it like socks or any other neutral word, this image might help: Think what a difficult time ESL teachers have on slang day when they explain the name.
Surprisingly, at least one sociolinguist has remarked that while calling a shirt a wife beater is “outrageous” and “shocking,” it’s not as politically incorrect as people assume. Using the term ironically to call the “redneck,” or beer-guzzling criminal on Cops (stereotypical wearers of the shirt), wife beaters shows political awareness that this violence is wrong. Flipping the term on its head is a way of looking down on others who behave badly.
The problem is, even with the ironic usage, this kind of language gives in to gross (overly-general) stereotypes. It demonstrates classism (if not sexism) and doesn’t move away from the fact that the term can still be fuel for hate. What about the countless perfectly non-violent men (and women) of all socioeconomic backgrounds who wear the tanks? Should they be painted as impoverished, filthy, violent slobs? Of course not!
Even though wife beater still surfaces (like in a 2016 Vogue article), there’s a resurgence of people questioning its use—millennials. This is in no small part due to the increased exposure of domestic-abuse issues in the media.
While eBay still sells wife beaters , clothing stores like Target and Macy’s offer “tanks” of all descriptions, and Fruit of the Loom sells multi-packs of “A-shirts” ( Athletic- shirts). Removing wife beater from our sartorial lexicon won’t make real wife-beating go away. But, for humankind’s sake, we don’t need to call a shirt by that name. Over 600 women every day are victims of sexual and domestic violence in the US. That’s not ironic, that’s real. So, let’s not be ironic about the word wife beater . Let’s take it to the trash.

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