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.
It's part of the reason the book Bastard Out Of Carolina resonated so deeply with me.
I grew up with a single mother who was ALWAYS, CONSTANTLY choosing abusive men over her own children.
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.