Tag: domestic abuse

• This Thing of Darkness

  We all walk the earth in egg-shell armour at the whim of Nature. There is little of any of us that will not break if chaos strikes, or heal without a scar. You’d think that, given our fragility, we would opt for conciliation or compromise, and yet more often we challenge those who are not…

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  November 7, 2018

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  CTE, domestic abuse, heroes, intimate partner violence, Los Angeles Times, Maria Garay-Serratos, Paul van Donkelaar, PTSD, Steven Pinker, TBI, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Conversation, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, University of British Columbia, victims, Violence

• Are We There Yet?

  There are some things you just have to get right -or else. But, or else what..?  Continuing exposure, even to the most egregious injustices risks dulling the senses; eliciting not indignant shouts but shrugs, excuses not action. Accommodation. There are benefits that accrue to adaptation, of course –if one lives next to a pulp mill,…

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  December 31, 2014

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  accommodation, adaptation, Canadian parliamentarians, China’s new draft law, cultural folkways, cultural relativism, domestic abuse, domestic violence, folkways, Here be dragons, physical abuse, sexual harassment