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He laughs at fragile men who belittle and demean women. A few months ago, he screamed at his wife and their child in the middle of the night. The cats ran upstairs in terror as he slammed doors and punched walls.

He goes on long lectures, educating his wife on feminism and racism. She, a woman of color, can’t get a word in edgewise so she has mostly stopped trying.

He talks very loudly about pro-choice healthcare. Twice he has shoved her because he was angry and she was in the way.

He points out discrepancies in the way woman-centered media is criticized compared to men’s. He also has told her she takes too long to orgasm so she shouldn’t expect pleasure in bed.

Just last week, he was laughing because he had read about other countries accepting people running away from life or death situations. “Why wouldn’t they advise those people to go to the police?”

She thought of one hundred scenarios pertinent to her own experiences. The man who stalked her in college. The campus police who laughed at her when she reported him.

She mentioned just one of the scenarios flitting through her mind. He said nothing for a few blissful seconds, and then he changed the subject.