I’m going to begin with the inexplicable presence of domestic violence that is woven into our culture and brought to the fore by recent events in the White House. And casting a wider net, I wonder how to explain so many of our attitudes toward women that are made manifest in sexual assault, battery and gun violence by intimate partners, while desperate and terrified women seek a fragile safety behind restraining orders.I have struggled to understand the act of rape in our [...]
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