The author of Tamar's Cry, Pamela Cooper-White, took a subject like violence against women and the Church and transformed it from so as not to arouse a sense of defensiveness in forces who have unwittingly committed such offenses which, when placed on a spectrum, may seem rather inconsequential. Cooper-White has tackled a complex and multi-faceted issue that has been forged across millennia of society and cultures and resulted in an incredibly eloquent and simple book that informs readers and identifies the overarching issues and roots of violence against women. Problems that I find real and not the odious manifesto of a hypersensitive feminist. Although the book is both quite dense and interesting, I feel particularly drawn to its second chapter (Images of Women: Pornography and the Connection to Violence) which identifies the six myths about women. From these six misconceptions, one could easily deduce that not only women, but also children and anyone with a different sexual orientation than the average heterosexual man, are not affected....