Example: Physical Attack

In Ovett, Mississippi, after their neighbors discovered that they are lesbians, Brenda and Wanda Henson received threats of violence ranging from intimidating phone calls, to nightly gunshots on or near their property, to discovering the body of a dead female puppy draped over their bullet-pierced mailbox.

• Have there been similar incidents in the news or reported to you by friends? Have you experienced this type of discrimination?
  
  
• What makes this type of incident different from anitlocution?
  
  
• What makes it different from avoidance?
  
  
• How does it differ from discrimination?
  
  
• Can you detect elements of antilocution, avoidance, or discrimination in this example?