We women are often told that equality has arrived. It’s time to calm down and stop being victims. That the #MeToo movement went too far. I mean, Amber Heard, right? That it’s #NotAllMen. Then you open your phone, pick up a paper or listen to the news and it feels terrifying to be a woman. Story after story involving women being beaten, abused, humiliated, raped or killed by men — often their partner. I recently got chided on a show for saying there was an “epidemic” of violence against women. I stand by every word.
We have learned that Epsom College headmistress Emma Pattison may have been shot by her husband shot alongside their seven-year-old daughter. Two days ago, a man was found guilty in Edinburgh of luring Bennylyn Burke and her two-year-old daughter up to Dundee where he killed them both. She had been hoping for a better life.
