“Blaming adolescent girls for the predatory behavior of adult men. Jesus Christ these people are soulless.”— Jill Filipovic, twitter.com
“Of course it's worse when the sexual harasser or assailant is a man you thought was one of the good ones.”— Jill Filipovic, twitter.com
“Even though awareness is higher than ever about workplace sexual harassment, there are still so many people who feel victimized, afraid and silenced by their abusers and circumstances.”— Taylor Swift, time.com
“The brave women and men who have come forward this year have all moved the needle in terms of letting people know that this abuse of power shouldn’t be tolerated.”— Taylor Swift, time.com
“I think that this moment is important for awareness, for how parents are talking to their children, and how victims are processing their trauma, whether it be new or old.”— Taylor Swift, time.com
“You should not be blamed for waiting 15 minutes or 15 days or 15 years to report sexual assault or harassment, or for the outcome of what happens to a person after he or she makes the choice to sexually harass or assault you.”— Taylor Swift, time.com
“My advice is that you not blame yourself and do not accept the blame others will try to place on you.”— Taylor Swift, time.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
“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
“Being an awkward girl with a big nose never protected me from harassment. If anything, especially when you're young, not being 'conventionally attractive' can mean you're treated as if you should be grateful for the attention. I know it makes some women feel safer if they attack other's choices - th…”— Jessica Valenti, twitter.com
“Plenty of people get wasted and manage not to assault others. Lots of folks struggle with alcoholism and drug addiction without harassing women.”— Jessica Valenti, twitter.com
“If you’re upset about the assault & harassment women deal with, think beyond the impact of an individual experience - consider what this horror does to us cumulatively over a lifetime... This isn’t just about one man or one horrible experience. It’s about women being shaped by a lifetime of preventa…”— Jessica Valenti, twitter.com
“The problem isn’t men and women being alone together, it’s abusive men and their communities that look the other way. I find 'solutions' like these so troubling because they’re based on the idea that the only thing stopping men from harassing is opportunity.”— Jessica Valenti, twitter.com
“If you are tempted to say that masturbating in front of women is not THAT bad on the spectrum of sexual assault, please don't.”— Jessica Valenti, twitter.com
“stop mourning the work that's been tainted by shitty men and start mourning the work we lost from the people they targeted.”— Caroline Framke, twitter.com
“I worked at a mall throughout college. Let me tell you, you have to be one serious fucking creep to get mall security to do something about it.”— Jessica Valenti, twitter.com
“my current favorite victim-blaming tactic is 'she's accused other guys in the past.' like women get a lifetime limit of talking about one (1) assault ever and we have to keep the rest of them quiet if we want people to believe us”— Amanda Hess, twitter.com
“In decades of research on rape, no one has found a link between what a woman wears & her chances of being attacked. The only relationship between clothing and sexual assault is how much a victim will be blamed, period.”— Jessica Valenti, twitter.com
“If you have a story to share about harassment/abuse, do it now - I think we have a month, tops, before the wave of support moves against us. It's both that a sexist culture won't let this many men be held accountable & that hopelessness is going to start to set in. When it's SO MANY men, the respons…”— Jessica Valenti, twitter.com