Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists Quotes

“Profilers may blame Islam, fundamentalism or just bad dudes, Freeman says, but four recent attackers — prior to driving their trucks into a crowd or shooting dozens of people in a nightclub — had extensive histories of sexual assault and battery of women. “And yet,” Freeman writes, “this is almost never discussed, because there is no political capital to be gained by suggesting warped masculinity might be more to blame than Muslims. After all, domestic violence is a problem that spans cultures, and if President Trump were to try to ban men accused of domestic violence from entering America instead of Muslims, he would lose some major figures in his own White House.”13”
― Margo Goodhand, Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists: The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada