The Warm Knife in Your Chest, Valley Deadsh!ts and the Ghosts of Schoolboys Past.
Getting assaulted in the street? "Welcome to being a woman", I guess?
I shocked a friend the other day when I offhandedly mentioned that the boisterous, boys-will-be-boys violence that young men do to each other is just a dress rehearsal for the way they are encouraged to exercise dominance over women. It’s so clear to me having lived both as a man and as a woman.
The ways in which young men will strike, grapple and restr…
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