The most notable thing about the article by Jan Morris’s daughter is that anybody’s surprised by the neglect and emotional abuse. Newsflash:it’s still there even if the perpetrator is clever or is one of your social class. We’ve been telling our stories. Why haven’t you listened?
The assumption that a wife or a child who is silent about this, was somehow happy with it, is a convenient way for people to cop out of dealing with what we go through.
And to cop out of confronting the fact that even in their social class, or their profession, or in their political tribe, the abusive dynamics of this remain the same.
It’s also a way that people reinforce their belief that it couldn’t happen to them. The stunning and brave ones that they know or relate to, aren’t like the ones who abused us muggles, they could never be taken in.
Whilst the voices of #transwidows and @ChildrenOfTrans are still bullied into silence, interpreting that silence as support and satisfaction flies in the face of all compassion and common sense.
Will the prominent feminist writers who were fans of Morris acknowledge any of this now? I doubt it.
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