My mother was a very hateful and vindictive woman. She had a strong hatred for my father, and she unleashed that anger very often on me throughout my childhood. She would scold me, throw things at me, degrade me, beat me, she even pinned me up against the wall one time and threatened to kill me. I couldn’t fight back, lest I be arrested and charged with domestic violence.

When I see misandrists lecturing on male fragility, I picture my mother in their place since she would also call me weak and fragile often. I fear meeting them in person because I know that if they found out how weak I was, they would show me no mercy.

I feel like I can’t tell this story anywhere else than here, since I feel like many people don’t believe that women are capable of such violence.

What are some ways to cope with this?