(1) Steiner tells us that people seldom understand why women do not leave abusive relationships. She gives the reasons she stayed, but in addition to those reasons, the article adds others. List 5 things you learned from this video and article that were different than you had previously assumed.
(2) One line from the article – Survivors continue to be marginalized, isolated and viewed as people who are broken and in crisis… describes how people in our society might be imaged as victims. After reading this article can you see how the label and connotations of victim can undercut the tremendous effort required to remove oneself from an abusive situation? Suggest some more proactive ways, based on your reading of the article, people who leave abusive situations might be imaged?
(3) Why, as the article suggests, does society – or at least do some of the players in society – try to normalize this sort of violence?
