I’d Rather Be Boiled in Oil

Sue Hirsch
4 min readApr 10, 2024

One would think that being boiled in oil or having someone shove a hot poker into your eye would be low on the list of things you’d like to experience.

Sadly, that’s just not true.

There are so many situations in which I’d really rather be boiled in oil than have to deal with the alternative that I have to take off my shoes in order to have digits enough to count them. A lot of them have to do with being around lascivious men.

Even men who knew that I was married sometimes propositioned me or behaved in a lewd or overly

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