A 14-year-old boy slammed a 15-year-old girl on a Manhattan sidewalk and stomped on her head. She refused to give him her phone number. Someone filmed it. The video has over a million views.

This episode is about the second crime — what happens to a victim after the violence ends and the discourse begins. What it does to her brain, her trust, her right to her own rage. Why we are teaching young women that their pattern recognition is racism. Why a society that gives criminals more sympathy than victims always ends the same way. And what Russia learned about this pattern that America is learning now.

Mythos — available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK/

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