The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
When you're wondering whether she's his daughter or his girlfriend, she's his girlfriend.
Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.
Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?
Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.
Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.
So I took her back to my place and we did it doggy style, not because we planned it that way, but that's just how she passed out.
