No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

by Rachel Louise Snyder

The world blasts you with some unpredictable horror and then what? No one escapes the blast. If you’re someone like Jimmy, you get mean. And the meanness means you get blasted again, because you’re daring the forces around you to do it again. Go ahead. I can take it. I’m tough. I’m a fucking man. And it works. The angrier you get, the more things happen to you. The more things happen to you, the angrier you get. A real-life infinity symbol.

Please don’t kill me. See how polite we women are? We say “please” when we’re begging for our lives.