Being female is the largest contributing risk factor to being abused in a heterosexual relationship. Which is why 35% of all murders of women globally are reported to be committed by an intimate partner in comparison, only about 5% of all murders of men are committed by an intimate partner (World Health Organization, 2012). This demands that I question the systems and that may have brought us to this point. What is it that has made our very being a risk factor? It leads me to