“On the twelfth feministmas My true love gave to me Fair rights and wages Reproductive freedom No victim blaming No body shaming No bullshit diets Gender bias broken Shame free breastfeeding Equality! Proud working mums Male allies No tampon tax And a grope-free Christmas party!”— Hyrrs, open.spotify.com
“There are so many men I love who do NOT frame the differentiation between sexual misconduct, assault and rape as an excuse or worse - our problem.”— Minnie Driver, twitter.com
“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
“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 fuc…”— Minnie Driver, theguardian.com
“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.”— Minnie Driver, theguardian.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
“We can work with that.” I don’t know Louis C.K.. I’ve never met him. I’m a fan of his, but I don’t imagine he’s going to do those things again. You know what I mean? I imagine the price that he’s paid at this point is so beyond anything that he — I just think that we have to kind of start delineatin…”— Matt Damon, abcnews.go.com
“Little did I know it would become my turn to say no. No to opening the door to him at all hours of the night, hotel after hotel, location after location, where he would show up unexpectedly, including one location where I was doing a movie he wasn’t even involved with. No to me taking a shower with…”— Salma Hayek, nytimes.com
“People were saying, “You should have beat him up.” I’m like, “Why is no one questioning him?” No one questions the predator. The person who is doing the harassment doesn’t even get a question. You know why? Because they just expect it.”— Terry Crews, time.com
“Until men stand up and say, “This harassment, this abuse, these assaults are wrong,” nothing will change. Men need to hold other men accountable.”— Terry Crews, time.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
“It's increasingly clear that for men, being drunk excuses anything they do. For women, being drunk excuses anything done to us.”— Louisa , twitter.com
“Sexual harassment is the opposite. It's devoid of empathy and it's about forcing your will upon another person without having any regard for their desire.”— Kate Willett, facebook.com
“Good flirting is fundamentally empathetic. It's about building desire and it's often pretty subtle. It's paying such deep attention to another person's emotions and body language that you create more intimacy with them. It's a two-way, playful, fun exchange that makes everyone feel good.”— Kate Willett, facebook.com
“I love to be flirted with. I don't like being sexually harassed. These two things are not the same, and if you're arguing the point "now men can't flirt anymore," you don't understand what flirting is or you're just pretending not to in order to set up a straw man argument in favor of sexual harassm…”— Kate Willett, facebook.com
“When newspaper headlines call rapist Brock Turner a “swim star”, when victims are blamed for what they wore, or when Nancy Pelosi calls her colleague accused of sexual harassment an “icon”, we are providing refuge to those that abuse others.”— Jessica Valenti, theguardian.com
“Sometimes the problem is that invisible girls are too visible, too powerful, too fierce. The world likes to box them in to contain them.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com