Geraldine — wasn’t it your intention to make some sort of profound point? That’s certainly the proposition Medium is making on your behalf, and the basis upon which it inserted your post on my home page.
Hello, Madelaine. Repeating stuff isn’t something that “men” do to “women”. It’s what “people” do to “people” — human behaviour is messy and often disappointing, communication especially so. That’s why Dinah Maria Mulock Craik wrote: