(May 30, 2010 at 10:24 pm)Shell B Wrote: I don't know, Sae. Obviously, being hit with a brick is far more dangerous and bound to cause far more suffering. However, having someone as close to you as your husband hit you with anything in anger is terrifying. It's the look on their face, the aggressiveness of their actions and the uncaring nature with which they treat you that scars emotionally. I sincerely believe that an abused woman could be terrorized with a feather. Don't get me wrong, I prefer the feather scenario to the brick scenario, but I just can't see an abused woman laughing in the face of her attacker. I don't care if he hits her with a stuffed Care Bear, it's still scary to her.
I understand the context you are specifying now... but in this case it matters little that it be brick, feather, stuffed carebear, or whathaveyou... as it is the anger that terrifies.
Also... assuming the woman hasn't yet been abused to the point they are 'broken'... the laughing in the face of an attacker scenario is a possibility. I don't think that the feather can terrify an abused woman... unless the particularly rare event occurs where she channels her hatred/fear into the feather instead of the abuser themself or some more painful device of torture it might use on her
Or perhaps if the feather is used as a signal of a yet more brutal atrocity (conditioned response).
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
