Having lived with the elephant of domestic violence as a child in both my grandparents’ and parents’ homes, having been terribly mired myself in more of the same as a young and unskilled wife, having been the victim of public intimidation (a hand gun pointed at me by a stranger in a public garage), having been a survivor of too many #MeToos in my working years, and having been over and over again horrified each time by reports of another woman or girl victimized — this latest mother and her dogs among the ongoing atrocities flashed at me on screen and in newsprint during my nearly 80 years, I am so tired of having not been born an in-charge man. And we wonder why so many young women these days seek to transition and be something less of the target they were born to be.
Sharon Wood Wortman
Brightwood, Oregon
Letters to the publisher: Sharon Wood Wortman
