Trigger warning for sexual abuse survivors.
I have been lucky enough to never suffer from sexual abuse so I obviously defer to those who have & however they decide to deal with it, but as I was watching Awful Normal, I was frustrated on their behalf regarding how society has even confined how we confront those who have harmed us and denied us of anger when sometimes anger is appropriate or if not applicable, robbed us of anger as an option. The sisters struggled so hard to adhere to the very social norms that their abuser violated: chit chat, some level of physical greeting or farewell, respecting his boundaries, thanking him, worrying about his feelings and not scaring him, etc. that it almost left them no room to do what they wanted to do. I am NOT equating a victim confronting an abuser with two people who were in a normal relationship trying to hammer out a problem, but it is the closest thing that I could compare it to. One side really trying to make an untenable situation work and the other person not worthy of any time or consideration, but getting both. I hope that regardless of how it looked to the viewer, that the two women received some form of peace, but unfortunately, I suspect that even though they confronted one abuser, there is at least one more that they have yet to recognize.