“I don’t want my sons to grow up learning what they ‘shouldn’t’ do. I want my sons to learn the important lessons – respecting boundaries, personal responsibility, kindness, humility, compassion.”— Anonymous, thoughtcatalog.com
“Just as I will teach them that their actions have a ripple effect, I will teach them that they must deal with whatever comes their way from that ripple effect. I won’t teach my sons not to rape, because I’ll be too busy teaching them to take responsibility for their actions.”— Anonymous, thoughtcatalog.com
“I won’t teach my sons not to rape, because I’ll be too busy teaching them the effect that every single one of their actions has not only on themselves – but on everyone around them, and even people they don’t know.”— Anonymous, thoughtcatalog.com
“This is not a story of another drunk college hookup with poor decision making. Assault is not an accident.”— Anonymous, buzzfeed.com
“To girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you. As the author Anne Lamott once wrote, “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for…”— Anonymous, buzzfeed.com
“It is deeply offensive that he would try and dilute rape with a suggestion of 'promiscuity'. By definition rape is not the absence of promiscuity, rape is the absence of consent, and it perturbs me deeply that he can’t even see that distinction.”— Anonymous, buzzfeed.com
“Let me rephrase for you, I want to show people that one night of drinking can ruin two lives. You and me. You are the cause, I am the effect. You have dragged me through this hell with you, dipped me back into that night again and again. You knocked down both our towers, I collapsed at the same time…”— Anonymous, buzzfeed.com
“After a few hours of this, they let me shower. I stood there examining my body beneath the stream of water and decided, I don’t want my body anymore. I was terrified of it, I didn’t know what had been in it, if it had been contaminated, who had touched it. I wanted to take off my body like a jacket…”— Anonymous (transcribed by Katie J.M. Baker), buzzfeed.com
“But I don’t remember, so how do I prove I didn’t like it.”— Anonymous (transcribed by Katie J.M. Baker), buzzfeed.com
“Women feel more guilt than men, not because of some weird chromosomal issue but because they have a history of being blamed for other people’s behavior. You get hit, you must have annoyed someone; you get raped, you must have excited someone; your kid is a junkie, you must have brought him up wrong.”— Germain Greer, edition.cnn.com
“I'm very much against the arrangement of procreation, at least for humans. If I could have designed it, it would be a toss-up who gets pregnant, the man or woman. Boy, that would end rape for one thing. And 'woman artist'? Disgusting.”— Dorothea Tanning, amazon.com