So it turns out that reading about white women voting for Roy Fuckin' Moore is resurfacing a very specific trauma I have form my adolescence.
I grew up with a single mother who was ALWAYS, CONSTANTLY choosing abusive men over her own children.
I was never the victim of sexual abuse, but I was often the victim of emotional abuse, and very rarely, physical abuse too.
But more than anything, I was neglected, while my mom chased me who abused her, in the hopes of finding someone to take care of her forever.
It's part of the reason the book Bastard Out Of Carolina resonated so deeply with me.