You're afraid of me. You're afraid that I won't love you back. And guess what? I'm afraid too. But at least I have the balls to it give it a shot. At least I'm honest with you.
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Minnie Driver
Amelia Fiona "Minnie" Driver (born 31 January 1970) is an English actress and singer-songwriter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gus van Sant's Good Will Hunting (1997) for her role as Skylar, and for the Emmy Award and Golden Globe for her work in the television series The Riches (2007-2008). Her film work includes Sleepers, Grosse Pointe Blank, Tarzan, Return to Me, Ella Enchanted, The Phantom of the Opera, Conviction, & Barney's Version. She starred as Fiona Bowa on the NBC sitcom About a Boy and currently stars as Maya DiMeo on the critically acclaimed ABC sitcom Speechless. 2Early life and education Driver was born in Marylebone, London. Her mother, Gaynor Churchward (née Millington), is a fabric designer and former couture model. Her father, Charles Ronald Driver (1921–2009), was born in Swansea, Wales, of English and Scottish descent; he earned the Distinguished Flying Medal for his role in the Battle of Heligoland Bight and was a director of London United Investments. Her parents never married, as her father was married to another woman throughout his relationship with her mother. Her parents separated when Minnie was six years old. She was sent to Bedales School, Hampshire as a boarde
There is no hierarchy of abuse – that if a woman is raped [it] is much worse than if woman has a penis exposed to her that she didn’t want or ask for… You cannot tell those women that one is supposed to feel worse than the other. And it certainly can’t be prescribed by a man. How about: it’s all…
If good men like Matt Damon are thinking like that then we’re in a lot of fucking trouble. We need good intelligent men to say this is all bad across the board, condemn it all and start again.
I’ve realised that most men, good men, the men that I love, there is a cut-off. Men simply cannot understand what abuse is like on a daily level.
Gosh it’s so *interesting how men with all these opinions about women’s differentiation between sexual misconduct, assault and rape reveal themselves to be utterly tone deaf and as a result, systemically part of the problem (*profoundly unsurprising).
You don’t get to be hierarchical with abuse. And you don’t get to tell women that because some guy only showed them their penis that their pain isn't as great as a woman who was raped.