It is everyday terrorism against women, but it is not recognised as such because the targets are women, and the perpetrators are the very people who claim to love us. While many of us have been directly harmed by male violence, the threat alone is enough to keep women as a class in a state of fear, controlled, pliable.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/caitlin-roper/male-violence-against-women_b_14982898.html
