The Vanishing Triangle

by Claire McGowan

In some ways this must be the cruellest thing of all – the terrible persistence of hope.

Not everyone wanted to live that way anymore, or put up with the hypocrisy of punishing women for straying, when men, even the men in charge of the Church, were allowed to get away with it.

There must be better ways to keep women safe than by imposing a virtual curfew, or a tax, via expensive trips home, on not getting raped and murdered.