Why Do We Hate Women Who Survive Violent Crimes?

They’re not the villains of the story

Memorial dedicated to Chapin, Kernodle, Mogen, and Goncalves

Edgar Allan Poe once wrote, “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” He also married his thirteen-year-old cousin when he was twenty-seven, so maybe we don’t need to take everything he says with such authority (although The Tell-Tale Heart is a banger, I’ll give him…