Keegan offers a very poignant snapshot of a small moment in time, indicative of so many larger things. It is difficult to capture the experience of misogyny by both who receives it and who inflicts it, but I think she acutely captured both the remorse and anger of having been wrong, and the many nuances of character that exist within the social structures that define relationships together.

He wanted to deny it, but it felt uncomfortably close to a truth he had not once considered. It occurred to him that he would not have minded her shutting up right then, and giving him what he wanted.