Why Do We Hate Women Who Survive Violent Crimes?
They’re not the villains of the story
4 min readJan 15, 2023
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…
