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“They are charming .. funny, gregarious, shy, high-strung. Good-looking or not, well-dressed or not. They are Everyman. One of the hallmarks of domestic violence is this false idea that abusers are somehow angry generally; rather, their anger is targeted-at a partner or at the partner's immediate family. As a result, friends and acquaintances of abusers are often surprised to hear that they committed an assault.”

This book is VERY aggressively and vulgar in its descriptions of how women were dehumanized. We get it, please move on

“By presuming that the course of American history runs on an arc that bends toward justice, and by presuming that this is the arc that describes my life, I ignore another possibility: that the United States was founded as a Herrenvolk society, that the master race dynamics of this founding are still very much at work in our public life, and that I am both an inheritor and a practitioner of wealth and privilege.”

“We are inclined to cherry-pick Dr. King ourselves.
… "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” sheds almost as little light on the whole of King's teaching, and it too is plucked out of context. It is no coincidence that this quotation is palatable to progressive politicians because it allows them to evoke the providentialism so endemic to American culture.”

Who f*cked up the cover for the audio book? Why is the cover for the real book normal while the cover for the audiobook looks like someone stole a photo off Tumblr?

“In his PhD dissertation, he’d looked at childcare and housework in houses where there was abuse versus those where abuse was not present … Adams was shocked to find that both men did about the same amount in each home, 21%. Where the two groups tended to differ was that the non-abusers knew they were getting a good deal and appreciated and acknowledged their wives’ double shifts.”

✋ absolutely not

“Intimate partner violence costs women $103K over the course of a single lifetime.”

“Strangulation turned out to dramatically increase the chances of domestic violence homicide. But only 15% of victims in the study turned out to have injuries visible enough to photograph for the police reports.”

It is SEVEN times. Victims of strangulation are seven times more likely to become a homicide victim.

“Love is what makes domestic violence different from any other crime. That the people involved have said to each other and to the world, You are the most important person to me. And then, in an instant, for that relationship to become lethal? It requires us to mentally, intellectually, and emotionally hurdle beyond what we can imagine.”

“You’re more likely to have a complication from a wisdom tooth extraction than from an abortion.”

“Credible studies find [abortion pills] safer than Tylenol or Viagra.”

“Pay attention to the language … they say women are more likely to ‘visit’ the emergency room after taking abortion medication. But making a ‘visit’ to the ER is very, very different from getting treatment.”

“Those who would see abortion banned like to pose hypotheticals about the remarkable baby a woman could have if she just didn’t get an abortion: What if they cured cancer? Rarely, if ever, does anyone ask if that woman herself might change the world. They don’t consider that we could be the remarkable ones, if only given the chance.”

“Why are we still trying to convince people that one in four American women aren’t murderers? Do we really think that one more story of a child raped by her father will move the hearts of men who would legislate away our humanity without even bothering to learn remedial facts about pregnancy?”

“After all, if this wasn’t about power, control, and punishment, why would some women be ‘allowed’ abortions when they’re raped? It’s those of us who have sex willingly they want to teach a lesson to the most.”