Is There a Threat of Violence?

There's always an intimation of violence, which is why if he calls her a whore, it is severe in a way that a verbal slight she might make to him is not. I don't think that every mean thing a man says to a woman always carries the threat of violence. Even if they're misguided, even if they're sort of insensitive or callous, they never have the full weight of cruelty towards another human being because that cruelty never has the threat of Violence behind it.