Beloved

So painful, so, so painful :´(
I mean... reading N.K.Jemisin's Fifth Season was painful, but that's Fantasy. I don't know how much Beloved is based on truth, but I can believe everything in it happened, somewhere, to someone... the cruelty, the... ignorance, the hatred...
I find it so hard to believe anyone could hate another person so much!
And not because this other person did something horrible to them, but because... because it's impossible to deny the truth that this other person is a human being, another person.
Humiliation, dehumanizing, degrading, abuse... the ability to abuse another human being without any consequences... all that just to make the other human being less than human.

And I am thinking about bullying, and domestic abuse, and abusive relationships... I read several years ago a book of short stories on “domestic discipline” - the movement among USonian Christians that the husband should be “manly” and “spank” his wife to keep her good and obedient. In it was a story of a woman who happened upon a feminist meeting, and when her husband found out, he beat her and then he raped her, because he had “shamed him in public”. The author says that it's not abuse because he loves her, and I fail to see any love there at all. Just the same hatred and dehumanizing people.

It is just so disgusting!