The Frog Metaphor Is Not True

There was a legal trend in the late 18th century when commercial rat poison became available and suddenly women's husbands started dying like more than they had before. There would be these cases that Anne Jones writes about in a really shockingly nuanced based on its title book called Women Who Kill. The idea of now that we have this defined battered woman syndrome, then a prosecutorial strategy that comes out of that is that you can say, well, she didn't really have battered woman syndrome. And so it's something that you can apply kind of to whatever you want.