Women are expected to prevent male violence, anticipate male violence, survive male violence, explain male violence, and then comfort men about male violence.
I don’t care if that girl snorted coke with one nostril, meth with the other, injected heroin, ate a mushroom, smoked a joint, and did a keg stand booty butt naked in front of the entire frat house—she did not deserve to be assaulted.
Pre-Roe, I was 8 yrs old. I came home from school to find my Mom lying in a puddle of blood. She was weak & asked me to call a neighbor. She was miscarrying, but the embryo would not abort. For 48 hours, she bled while doctors transfused blood, waiting. Abortions were illegal.