Allie's gay friends are highly transphobic, while Violet is seemingly in an abusive relationship with shady Mark.
When we first encounter Heather Shipp's victimised Carmen, she is seemingly trapped in an abusive relationship with Keel Watson's Zuniga, and the Habañera is transformed into a protest song when he gets nasty.
The second is from "Lead Us Not Into Temptation" (1992), by Jason Berry, a journalist who, in 1985, in articles for the Times of Acadiana, a small Cajun-country weekly, broke the first of several seemingly isolated stories of abusive priests that foreshadowed the present mess.
Her arrest for "abusive behaviour" was seemingly unconnected to the tweet, but it happened shortly after.
Around the portal's opening, a seemingly handwritten account tells of Margo's abusive father, the promises of escape offered by Lenny and her delivery into sexual slavery.
Another of Del Toro's episodes tells the story of a seemingly friendly ogre who rescues a young girl from her abusive father only to bring her down to the sewer to eat her alive.
But there are all sorts of examples, including from recent history, demonstrating that even the most seemingly insurmountable institutions can be weakened or uprooted when they become abusive enough.
Others spoke of receiving abusive comments while playing on Xbox live, using Msn and even when commenting on seemingly innocent YouTube videos.
For Shepard, the heart of this, seemingly, and a recurring theme in his work, is bound up with the relationship he had with his alcoholic, abusive father.
