“At the moment … the clearer signal to men and to younger people is, deny it. Because if you take responsibility for what you did, your life’s going to get ruined.”— Matt Damon, abcnews.go.com
“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).”— Minnie Driver, twitter.com
“There's a difference between patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation. Both of those behaviours need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn’t be conflated.”— Matt Damon, abcnews.go.com
“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.”— Minnie Driver, theguardian.com
“Men’s loyalty to violence is disturbing. When women want a life free of abuse, assault, threat, & coercion, men’s first suggestion is “Learn to fight back. Learn to defend yourself”. I don’t want my life to be a fight. I don’t want to “prove myself” through inflicting pain & fear. I don’t find viole…”— @fyxan, fyxan.tumblr.com
“I think one of my least favorite types of responses to people speaking up on sexual harassment and sexual assault is are articles like “in wake of weinstein, men wonder if hugging women still ok”, and comments like “this is why men don’t pursue women anymore”, “i don’t wanna work with women cause i…”— @residentgoodgirl, tumblr.com
“A 5-year old girls also gets raped. A woman covered in a burkha too. A 70-year old woman gets raped. This is not about sexuality or nudity. This is about control and power. I think men are insecure, afraid of being rejected. They can’t control a woman’s sexuality and that scares them. From an early…”— Ritabhari Chakraborty and Arindam Sil, youtube.com
“More than half the men expected their careers to take precedence over their wives’ careers, while most women expected egalitarian marriages. (Almost no women expected their own careers to come first.)”— Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, hbr.org