“When you only conceive of women’s humanity in relation to the men in their lives, that becomes the only way to explain the horror of sexual assault. What if it were your daughter? What if it were your granddaughter? 

In these men’s estimations, women are only people when they are connected in some way to other men.

Please understand that’s absurd. Women are people all of the time.”

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