“You see a higher follower count, or a higher retweet count, and you assume this person is important, or this tweet was well received. As a result, you might be more likely to amplify it, to share it or to follow that person.”— Rand Fishkin, nytimes.com
“I objectively know that the concept of physical beauty is deeply flawed in many ways, that it revolves around subjective standards and that it doesn’t have any correlation with anyone’s worth as a person. BUT if I could be generally considered beautiful, I wouldn’t turn my back on that opportunity u…”— imanes, imanes.tumblr.com
“Abusers and manipulators don’t act toxic to everyone, so just because they’re good to you doesn’t mean they didn’t abuse someone else.”— FOR THE FALLEN MEMES, twitter.com
“Why are we still demanding that women out themselves as survivors, again and again and again, rather than demanding that men out themselves as abusers?”— Heather Jo Flores, medium.com
“Every time a man is accused of something bad, or when someone he knows is accused of something bad, the same quote surfaces: ‘As a father of daughters, I …’ Here’s the thing: Only a sociopath needs a daughter — or a sister, a girlfriend, a wife — to make him queasy enough at the thought of a sexual…”— Hunter Harris, vulture.com
“Having a daughter shouldn’t be a requirement for internalizing the problems of working within a sexist industry. Your wives gave birth to a baby girl, not a moral compass.”— Hunter Harris, vulture.com
“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.com
“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.com
“Women are only worthy of basic respect in relation to men. If a man is killed or murdered, it’s much harder to find similar quotes from politicians talking about their sons and fathers and grandsons. That’s because men see each other as humans. And a lot of men still don’t view girls or women that w…”— Emily Peck, huffingtonpost.com
“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.com