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i feel like im pretentious about repression or whatever like oh they can identify and name their repressed desires thats like the boring level one repression wheres the level of repression where they cant even begin to contemplate their own desires because contemplating them is a slippery slope to actually having desires which is a slippery slope to everything

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Exclusive: ‘The only way he would accept the divorce was if I took responsibility for half of the debts that were his. I paid off £20,000 of

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One in three domestic abuse victims trying to flee their partner have been plagued with financial abuse that leaves them unable to escape danger, figures show.

Refuge, which is the UK’s largest provider of shelters for domestic abuse victims, found 1,780 women seeking help – more than a third of the total – had faced economic abuse from their partner, including being denied access to money or a bank account, as well as having debt placed in their name. On average, the mistreatment lasted more than six years.

The economic abuse slashed women’s credit ratings, pushed them into homelessness, spiralling debt, and left them unable to afford food and other staples, the frontline service provider said.

Three-quarters of the women were also experiencing violent assaults, while about a third had been threatened with murder by their partner. Some 95 per cent had endured psychological abuse and more than a third had suffered sexual abuse and violence.

Sandra Horley, chief executive of Refuge, said thousands of women in the UK are suffering economic abuse from men and such behaviour is used to “control every aspect” of their freedom and independence.

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Franz Kafka, 1912

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Nearly every mass shooting in the past few years has been perpetrated by a man with a history of abuse. So where’s the public outcry for this chronic threat to women’s lives?

Familicide—it sounds biblical. An act of retribution from another time before our own where the family is killed by the patriarch. Yet familicide, and the perpetrators of it, are becoming increasingly common in America. So common, that every week in America men are killing their wives, children, possibly other family members, almost always in mass shootings.

The #MeToo movement has shone a klieg light on sexual violence against women. Yet lurking in the wings, awaiting its own spotlight is the most common crime against women, domestic violence, which often includes sexual violence and sometimes murder.

Familicide—defined as “a dramatic, violent event in which a person commits a murder or murders, and then shortly after commits suicide,” according to American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States, released in June 2018—is the most extreme form of domestic violence. News media most often use the term murder-suicide, but experts refer to men who kill in this way as “family annihilators” and the act itself, “familicide.” Ninety-four percent of the victims of familicide are female.

Even though October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, familicide has yet to make headlines beyond individual cases. The cases that do make headlines, shocking as they might be, are only in the news fleetingly. One such case was the August 13 murder of Shannan Watts and her daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3. Shannan was pregnant with her third child, a boy, Nico, when her husband, Chris, murdered all of them. Shannan was a young mother with a large social-media presence. When Chris reported her and their children missing, national news media was flooded with photos and videos from her Facebook and Instagram accounts. The picture America saw for a week was of an attractive, happy family and the search for the missing mother and children was extensive. But when Chris Watts reported his family missing, they were already dead. The little girls had been put in oil tanks where Watts had once worked and his wife was buried in a shallow grave on the grounds.