“Men are not going to stop asking women to go to the hotel room. Women have to stop going. Because if there's one woman left willing to do it, it's going to continue.”— Donna Rotunno, insider.com
“I am what’s known on the streets as a victim blamer. You know what I mean? If somebody come up to me like, 'Dave, Dave, Chris Brown just beat up Rihanna.' I’ll be like, 'Well, what did she do?' 'Dave, Michael Jackson was molesting children.' 'Well, what were those kids wearing at the time?'”— Dave Chappelle, Himself, Dave Chappelle, imdb.com
“i cannot tell you how many times when i was a kid i got scolded for getting upset. "he's just messing with you!" oh so he's... literally trying to make me upset? and I'M wrong for getting upset? no. no. shut it the fuck down.”— Hannah Moskowitz, twitter.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
“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
“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
“If you’re wondering why the actresses coming out against Weinstein are mostly those you haven’t seen since the 90s, he’s the reason you haven’t seen them since the 90s.”— brainstatic, brainstatic.tumblr.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
“Not only are women expected to weather sexual violence, intimate partner violence, workplace discrimination, institutional subordination, the expectation of free domestic labor, the blame for our own victimization, and all the subtler, invisible cuts that undermine us daily, we are not even allowed…”— Lindy West, nytimes.com
“Self control is not enforced enough. All the pressure is placed on women to prevent assault.”— Asia Cheyanne, twitter.com
“Our culture does not encourage people who cause harm to take responsibility. We have an adversarial model where the person who is actually placed on trial is the survivor.”— Mariame Kaba, truth-out.org
“Men: It’s not our job to keep reminding you. Remind each other, and stop abusing. It’s as simple as that. Until men speak out against men who abuse, this will never stop. How about y’all post ‘I ignored it and I won’t anymore’ instead?”— Heather Jo Flores, medium.com
“Why are we still demanding that women out themselves as survivors, again and again and again, rather than demanding that men out themselves as abusers?”— Heather Jo Flores, medium.com
“I refuse to post this #metoo thing. Not because I haven’t been harassed and abused but because Y’ALL ALREADY KNOW that likely every woman you have ever met has dealt with this crap. It shouldn’t take some hashtag to remind you. It shouldn’t fall to the victims, again, to have to keep speaking out. I…”— Heather Jo Flores, medium.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
“This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It's a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin blaming our culture, which stigmatizes, demeans and strips trans women of their humanity.”— Janet Mock, amazon.com
“You didn’t ask to be part of the narrative? Sorry. Did John Mayer, Taylor Lautner, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Jonas, or Harry Styles ask to be part of your narrative that you used to portray yourself as a victim?”— Todd, idly.craveonline.com