How Safe is Your Daughter?

"If only our villain had been in the Crips! —If only he'd been a drag queen, if only he'd pierced his dick and gotten high on dope!"

It’s an odd thing to pin on the calendar but October in the US is “domestic violence awareness” month. We know that family violence is relentless. It’s so hard to break a generational cycle, really break it for good.

There’s the internal secrets, and then there’s the external bogeyman. Let’s talk about those —

To my mind, it began with the milk cartons. In the early 80s.