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Friday, November 17, 2006
Posted
10:52 AM
by freelance radical
. THE DARK SECRET I watched a mother's abuse, yesterday. Her back was turned to me, so she didn't see me standing behind her, where I had been for quite a while, finding myself unable to move at the sight of this woman talking into a cellphone with her left hand, while barely holding a tiny little boy upside down, with her right hand. The kid was moaning, but she paid it no attention. She held it, like one would hold a handful of dirty laundry. Then she turned around and saw me. I did or said nothing, yet she quickly ended her phone conversation, turned her child rightside-up again, and kissed its little cheek. After that, this mother kept "accidentally" passing me with the little boy held close to her chest, while she continued to deliver little kisses to his cheeks. After a while, I left the store and thought I had forgotten about her. Yet hours later, I started to think about how totally alone-with-her-children a mother usually is, and how she can commit the most awful forms of abuse without anyone ever knowing about it. Our society's focus has been on male abuse exclusively. Even when a woman drowned her children one by one, there seemed to be little outrage. Somehow, women have been left alone to do as they please. No one threatens to expose them. No one issues warnings against them. No one even bothers to talk about mothers and children and all the scary, spooky, abusive behavior that might and does occur inside the private cubicle of those relationships. For every child on earth, its mother holds the key to life itself, and no child will ever complain about her or expose her tyranny. No matter how abusive she may be. And now that society has colluded with the mother to protect her secret abuse, it may have gone completely out of control. =======
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