Liontamers: how daughters have coped with exceptional parents.
Scarlet's father: not real meany. of course, he was fictional. And he only whipped his slave once: for not grooming a horse. So a man who values animals over humans. (K would approve)
Throwing in a fictional character--serve purpose. Clean. no missing backstory.
--useful to illustrate--instantly recognizable as meme. Fairy stories. It was the MOTHER, step, behind the man who was the true evil.
Not true for Stalin nor Hitler nor Jim Jones nor Michelle
We like to think that behind every mean man is a big old teddy bear. Bears have claws. Real ones. The snow white story: "no one is coming".... we like to see him cringe before a woman. There are men like that. (Josh--even typing that I'm not sure he doesn't tie his wife in knots or seriously berate her at home privately,,,my trust issues)
Maybe Steve is another. But the gentleness shows. But Hitler loved his dogs. That's what I'll say to K next time she says she judges humans by how they treat animals.
For some, animals are a bridge. For others a wall. A substitute. Be wary.
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