Because my father beat my mother, sometimes into bloody unconsciousness, I have reflected every day of my life since then on the violence men do to women. What causes it? What moves them? In my father's case, I suspect it was jealousy (not even drink, that common trigger), but why beat my mother half to death because, for instance, she fell into a close friendship with another woman - not even a man? He was not mad. He was a man of some standing, a pillar of the community, quite jolly even. But I have seen him sitting at the dinner table, with we three, frozen-faced children, shouting at our mother to get up and serve him while she lay unconscious on the floor.

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Very touching article.

Bastard

excellent article