“The sharper sting comes from a more intimate betrayal: woman after woman using her prestigious media platform and her disingenuous claims of feminist identity to undercut a movement that uplifts women’s voices and questions sexual norms that harm them.”— Claire Fallon, huffingtonpost.com
“I would love to live in a world where women feel safe saying NO, loudly & clearly every time they feel uncomfortable but that’s something that is often impossible for women. After all, the word no hasn’t been taught to us. We haven’t been given the freedom to say no all the time.”— Arnesa, twitter.com
“Heed it: Coercion is an exacted, parallel form of assault. If we are leaving out the grey areas of these difficult conversations, then we are not fully addressing the enormous disparities of power between men and women. Coercing. A. Woman. Into. Sex. Is. An. Abuse. Of. Power.”— Amber Tamblyn, twitter.com
“Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.”— Terence McKenna, amazon.com
“And perhaps, if your first reaction is to dismiss or belittle this woman’s experience because it is not a tidy story of assault, sit with that a minute, come at it again with compassion and know that assault can still take place when a woman goes home with a man.”— Kate Leaver, twitter.com
“Please, let’s use the Aziz Ansari story to discuss how complex consent can be. If you’re tempted to think it was “just a bad date,” please, talk to the women in your life. My heart aches for how many have been through similar.”— Kate Leaver, twitter.com
“If you are paid to write you should not use the word misconduct when you mean rape that's just sloppy writing.”— Saladin Ahmed, twitter.com
“Fuck you! They don't rape you, do they? He doesn't come in here once a month and read you a little scripture and stick his cock up your ass? I said I was happy!”— Margaret Atwood, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com
“Who the hell wants to be famous for being raped?”— Melissa Schuman, melissaexplainsitall.wordpress.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
“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
“It wasn’t built to be a viral campaign or a hashtag that is here today and forgotten tomorrow. It was a catchphrase to be used from survivor to survivor to let folks know that they were not alone and that a movement for radical healing was happening and possible.”— Tarana Burke, ebony.com
“We’re in the midst of a reckoning. It’s what toxic masculinity’s own medicine tastes like. And people should allow the consequences to unfold, regardless of how it affects those they consider to be friends. The only way to enforce seismic, cultural change in the way men relate to women is to draw a…”— Amber Tamblyn, nytimes.com
“We haven’t been silent because we forgot or made our stories up. We’ve been silent because we’ve been silenced.”— Amber Tamblyn, nytimes.com
“We’re in the midst of a reckoning. It’s what toxic masculinity’s own medicine tastes like. And people should allow the consequences to unfold, regardless of how it affects those they consider to be friends.”— Amber Tamblyn, nytimes.com
“Why do we need to talk about the redemption of men when we are right in the middle of the salvation of women? Not even the middle, but the very beginning? Why are we obligated to care about salvaging male careers when we have just begun to tell the stories that have plagued us for lifetimes? It seem…”— Amber Tamblyn, nytimes.com
“I firmly believe that when we stop using rape as a plot device, when we stop normalizing predatory behavior in film and television, we will see a change in the behavior of humans toward their fellow humans.”— Stephanie Beatriz, twitter.com
“The structure of our society and legal system is so stacked against victims of sexual assault that believing the victims is a basic pillar of feminism: If we live in a world where the standard response to sexual assault is to find a way to demonstrate that the victim was somehow asking for it, the b…”— Constance Grady, vox.com
“Lena Dunham doesn't believe her white male friend raped her black female costar? Color me shocked. Almost like white feminism is really only about uplifting and supporting white women as they pursue their ultimate capitalistic goals of sharing the role with men as oppressors.”— Kat Blaque, twitter.com
“Dunham’s discrediting of Perrineau is an example of how women of color who have made accusations of sexual assault are often contradicted and never believed (Lupita Nyong’o for example, was the only one of 79 actress that Harvey Weinstein contradicted when she came forward with her story of sexual m…”— Paula Rogo, essence.com