Wanton Cruelty

I take back whatever I said about Ioffe. Poor woman, her mother tried to abort her several times. And found nothing better than to share the details of these efforts with Ioffe.

It’s not surprising that the woman is not all there.

My mother has also told me obsessively throughout my entire life how inconvenienced she was by my birth but at least she wasn’t the kind ever to contemplate abortion. Thank God for small mercies. What it might feel to have your mother detail the many efforts she made to end you before birth, I can’t imagine.

Ioffe’s mother later went on to get a bunch of successful abortions, sharing their details with her daughter. Of course, Ioffe will never clock on to how much her anger at being a woman is a result of her mother’s wanton cruelty.