Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir

by Jeannie Vanasco

Suddenly I realize: all along I judged the assault’s severity based on Mark’s body—which part he used. I never judged the severity based on my body—which part he violated.

I want him to become beside the point.

I’m worried that a strain of conservative thinking is entering modern feminism. This zero-tolerance policy: No matter what, he’s banished. Away with him.