Specters of Male Violence in “Especially Heinous” and What the Constitution Means to Me

When I was growing up my mom often repeated a warning to my sister and me about men. She warned us that not every man we meet would be as trustworthy as our dad and our poppop. Sometimes she didn’t put our other grandfather or our uncles in this category of trustworthy men, which I don’t think reflects on their character; rather, she knew that even the men closest to us often have the potential to betray us.