“I am sick of having to suffer so a man can grow. I am tired of having to confess to someone else’s crimes.”— Alexandra Petri, washingtonpost.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
“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
“You can dress it up with talk of glamour and bunny ears and fishnets, you can talk about his contribution to gonzo journalism, you can contextualise his drive to free up sex as part of the sexual revolution. But strip it all back and he was a man who bought and sold women to other men.”— Suzanne Moore, theguardian.com
“The fantasy that Hefner sold was not a fantasy of freedom for women, but for men.”— Suzanne Moore, theguardian.com
“Men should be offended when someone claims that women should prevent rape by not wearing certain things, or not going to certain places, or not acting a certain way. That line of thinking presumes that you are incapable of control. That you are so base and uncivilized that it takes extraordinary eff…”— Unknown, preen.inquirer.net
“We know from 40 years of research that the younger boys get to porn, the more it limits their capacity for intimacy, the more it decreases their empathy for rape victims, the more it increases depression and anxiety, and the more likely they are to engage in risky sexual behavior... now we have a ge…”— Gail Dines, youtube.com
“Put the slut label on a working class girl, put in on a girl of color and what studies show is that girls who get defined as sluts in high school have similar PTSD symptoms to rape victims.”— Gail Dines, youtube.com
“Instead of wasting your time by writing me angry anons telling me it’s ‘not all men’ who rape and abuse, redirect your anger towards the men who caused the stereotype.”— ithelpstodream, ithelpstodream.tumblr.com
“No matter how I present myself, I’m confident and I’m comfortable. My self-respect is doing what makes me happy. When I’m hungry, I eat, when I’m thirsty I drink, I have self-respect, I look after myself. You can't tell me what ladylike is because we don't live in the '50s any more. I am looking for…”— Faith Sobotker, news.com.au
“We teach girls shame. Close your legs; cover yourself. We make them feel as though being born female, they're already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up--and this is the worst…”— Chimamamda Ngozi Adichie, thoughtcatalog.com
“The day that women can casually be topless and not be raped or degraded will be the day that women will be equal in society.”— Willow Smith, twitter.com
“Expressing sexuality in art is not an invitation for disrespect. Just like wearing a short skirt is not asking for assault. Women's choice... Our bodies, our clothing, our music, our personalities... sexy, flirty, fun. It is not. an open. invitation. You are literally saying that if we look a certai…”— Ariana Grande, rollingstone.com
“We will not change the way we dress because it's more convenient for your lack of self control.”— Unknown, thesociologicalcinema.tumblr.com
“Consensual sex’ is just sex. To say that implies that there is such a thing as ‘non consensual sex’, which there isn’t. That’s rape. That is what it needs to be called. There is only sex or rape. Do not teach people that rape is just another type of sex. They are two very separate events. You wouldn…”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“On February 8, 2009, at 12:30am, Chris Brown beat Rihanna’s face into a landscape of craters and bruises. This is the architecture of violence. Later, Chris Brown described their relationship as being similar to Romeo and Juliet’s. In 2013, David O. Russell groped his niece’s breasts and claimed she…”— Meggie Royer, writingsforwinter.tumblr.com
“When you force yourself into someone's daughter, you rape generations of women.”— Aman Batra, facebook.com