We now understand that being on the receiving end of violence is an organic part of women’s, children’s, and some men’s daily realities and that it can be reported. These facts are the subjects of many, many books, movies, studies, conversations, and ideologies. And while an extensive legal infrastructure has developed to address these events, the analysis that produced it historically has differed enormously from the ideology that underlines it today. The implementation of this ideology has resulted in social confusions and messaging contradictions that can easily contribute to misplacing
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