Vengeance best served cold when women recall
incidents of the distant past that may have pleased
them then, the attention of a man expressing the
now-outdated admiration of a woman leading to a
touch now viewed as a bodily invasion hugely
inappropriate bordering on sex assault where no
matter how long ago and the vagaries of memory
the accusation holds opprobrium from which the
accused may never recover -- from a permissive
society to one in stern judgement where the woman
is believed, the man reviled. But there are exceptions.
Men on fire with the psychosis of hate and rage can
flood a peaceful gathering of music lovers to
surround fleeing women, savagely mutilate them
gang-rape girls and women, torture and laugh at their
agony before slaughtering them and desecrating
their fragile corpses while delightedly capturing
the moment on video and displaying them to
great applause. Yet those women who recalled
long-ago indignities to their person insist there
is no proof that terrorism exploded in a blast
furnace of abduction, rape, mutilation and joy.
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