Despite everything we know about the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, women are still not believed. Their experiences are still minimized. And the male perpetrators of these crimes are given all manner of leniency.
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Imagine if every single man in the world had a 9pm curfew. As soon as the night turned late, men had to go back home and stay indoors, and women, nonbinary people, and gender nonconforming folks could go out and do as they pleased at night.
We know the extent to which a woman’s credibility depends on her demeanor during crucial moments of scrutiny, and there is one quality that counts above all: poise.
The myth of female empowerment has always been on a collision course with the reality.
A great number of people seem to think sex, consensual or not, is little more than a conquest for men; they certainly aren’t expected to be the primary preventers of pregnancy in their relationships. Men enjoy sex as a pleasure and a conquest. Women shoulder the responsibilities.
Who do religions fear the most? You're going to say to me: Satan, the devil. It's actually women.
Every time you point I see a penis.
— Allison Silverman, Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Jonathan Krisel, Toni, Carrie Brownstein, imdb.com
The idea that this is what it means to become platonically close with another woman conveniently explains away potential slips into romance.
The seeds sown during the Hill hearings have come into full flower in the past two years, as the #MeToo movement erupted following the election of a multiply accused sexual harasser, and angry women jumped into electoral contests around the country.
I think feminism is the fight for women's rights, for equality, and also to protect women as much as possible.
We need to take women out of the box; to stop using a narrow set of adjectives to describe her as a leader.
Yes, wow, a better world is possible. We can win.
Stories are built on tropes, and tropes about women are built on binaries.
She is a goddess and we should praise her. All hail the bad girl. No matter what, we’re all still bad girls at heart.
I ask Alfonso where Gellhorn might have worked, and she says possibly in the library, next door to Hemingway’s workspace, which once was two connected bedrooms. But no one knows for sure.
I know you don’t like taking orders from a woman, but you’re gonna like getting your ass kicked by one even less.
— Chris Fedak, Sara Lance / White Canary, Caity Lotz, imdb.com
In hollows and coal patch towns, many rural Appalachian feminists were more visionary than the liberal elite in distant cities. They understood that different forms of injustice were interrelated, because they lived them.
While women are all-too-familiar with the phenomenon of men “pleading into the void” — or continuing to send messages at regular intervals even though they’re not receiving a reply — men seem both unaware that such messages are 1) bothersome; and 2) that all kinds of other men are doing the same thi…
The world is obviously in urgent need of more feminists and more good feminist men.
Women shouldn’t have to be the canaries in the coal mines of violence and misogyny. But often we are. We burn first.