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“Has anyone ever told you that you have the psychological profile of a misogynist from the 1980s?”
They shared the dark humor of traumatized people, a humor that made most people so uncomfortable (either because they had been abused and never told, because they had witnessed someone’s abuse, because they had heard of the abuse of someone close to
them, because they were in denial about abuse occurring, generally, or, more rarely, because no kind of abuse had ever happened to them) that they only revealed it in its full splendor when they were alone with each other, or, in Jane’s case, in therapy.
Isn’t the final stage of recovery when you can tell jokes about it?
