“When you only conceive of women’s humanity in relation to the men in their lives, that becomes the only way to explain the horror of sexual assault. What if it were your daughter? What if it were your granddaughter? In these men’s estimations, women are only people when they are connected in some wa…”— Emily Peck, huffingtonpost.comTagged: feminism, How We Think, Rape Culture, Sexual Abuse, Patriarchy
“Women are only worthy of basic respect in relation to men. Without wives, daughters, sisters and granddaughters, would men be unable to muster some base-level compassion for female human beings?... There seems to be this idea out there that men can only understand sexism, rape or harassment if they…”— Emily Peck, huffingtonpost.comTagged: How We Think, Rape Culture, Sexism, Compassion
“You don’t need to be the parent of a daughter or the grandfather of a little girl or the husband to a wife to understand that bragging about ― and committing ― sexual assault is vile.”— Emily Peck, huffingtonpost.comTagged: feminism, How We Think, Sexism