A man comments on a rape joke discussion: "This is one of the worst memes ever... aside from the typical feminazi bullshit attempt at authority...it's factually incorrect. Of course rape and woman-hating jokes are actual jokes, "joke" is in the God damn name!!!! You may find those kind of jokes off putting to enraging. That's fine, healthy even. But lying like a $5 dollar hoe to make some Thought Police SJW point isn't. Jokes, tasteless or not, don't suddenly morph into something else just because you're butthurt. It's idiotic crap like this that makes it harder to advocate for women's rights among the people who are part of the god damn problem!"
"Only six states and Washington, D.C., give sexual assault victims a right to have their rape kits tested promptly."
"The "friendzone" is an attitude of sexual entitlement that represents a simple lack of mutual attraction as a perceived slight or malicious action. It is an objectifying defense mechanism that deflects possible damage to one's ego back upon a person who happens to not be sexually attracted to you. It is a false concept that attacks them for their right to say "No thanks." It needs to stop."
"Get raped you fucking cunt. You disgusting piece of feminist shit. You are no better than those entitled little carpet punching dykes."
A man repeatedly tells a woman to get raped. She reports him to facebook. Facebook says he hasn't violated any of their Community Standards.
Cartoon of a woman presenting more "masculine". Text: "Look at yourself! Be more feminine! You'll never get a lad with that look! You're so ugly!"
Cartoon of a femme presenting woman: "What are you wearing? You're provoking rape! Slut!"
"Sexual harassment and the way we deal with it is personal to me. When I landed one exciting new job, I remember at the time feeling elated and dizzied and self-sufficient. My naivety, however, clearly trumped my self-preservation. I suppose the downfall started when I accepted their stupid-low salary offer. Too young to understand the concept of negotiation, I said yes, and signed on the dotted line. And it was that same rookie foolishness that caused me to turn a blind eye to being sexually harassed at work."
"70 percent of people keep harassment to themselves."
"Yet, families throughout the U.S. know that the burdens, pain, and trauma of mass incarceration extend to women and girls in uniquely terrifying ways. The U.S. incarcerates more women than any other nation in the world: more than China, Russia, India, Mexico, and Thailand combined. Like men, they experience rape behind bars, sodomy, solitary confinement, too frequently the denial of adequate medical care, and disparate sentences related to drug offenses. Disproportionately, females behind bars in the U.S. are women and girls of color."
"Women are the invisible casualties caught not only in our warehousing of people, but our failed Drug War. Our nation's war on drugs has resulted in tens of thousands of children displaced into foster care and later-homelessness. It resulted in draconian policies that created a 100-1 disparate sentencing framework between crack and cocaine. That is, a person with 5 grams of crack would be subjected to the same mandatory sentence of someone caught with 500 grams of powder cocaine. Many recognized such policies as racialized and unjustified. Five years ago, President Obama signed legislation that reduces the disparity to 18-1. It was a good bi-partisan first step, but it too maintained disparities that have enormous racial and socio-economic impacts. Nor did the law address female incarceration."
"By sexualizing their female students' bodies, schools teach students that a woman who doesn't dress conservatively enough is asking for attention, that it's not boys' fault if they give unwanted attention, and that a woman is defined by what she wears."
"By policing how girls dress in attempt to divert boys' attention from them, schools are holding girls responsible for how boys view them and even how they do in school. When schools talk about how "distracting" girls' outfits are, they're absolving boys of responsibility for doing their duties as a student regardless of their surroundings."
"Since they're not putting the blame on boys, guess who schools with strict dress codes are blaming for sexual harassment? As usual, the girls. According to a believe system in which it's in men's nature to objectify women, wearing a low-cut shirt is the equivalent of dangling a piece of meat in front of a dog (because, under this system, women are pieces of meat). Claiming that a woman's body is by nature "distracting" implies that it's her fault if she "allows" someone else to be distracted by it."
"While portraying boys as voracious sexual beasts, dress code supporters advocate a view of girls as objects who couldn't possibly have their own sexual desires, but rather have to field men's. Under this logic, a woman who violates a dress code chose her outfit for male attention, not for the sake of wearing what she likes or is most comfortable in. She's supposedly not protecting her "purity," which means she doesn't respect herself, which means it's OK to objectify her. "
"Any form of policing women's clothing perpetuates the idea that a woman's appearance reflects upon her personality or character, which it doesn't. Women in our culture are already taught that their looks are the most important thing about them, so it's difficult for a woman to get up in the morning and not obsess over what she's wearing. "
"Only six states and Washington, D.C., give sexual assault victims a right to have their rape kits tested promptly."
"Legislators and state officials around the country have worked in recent years to try to clear a backlog of untested rape kits, spending millions of dollars to do so. But officials in states like Colorado, Kentucky and North Carolina are increasingly disclosing that it's not uncommon for labs to have to trashed untested kits -- in some cases, illegally."
"The sexual harassment isn’t what irritates me. For me, this isn’t frightening or even that uncomfortable. This is every single day. I leave the house. Men talk to me. I hold my breath and I am polite and I am unshakable and then I get home. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat."
"What annoys me is the fact that I am being blamed for this moment in time, for this interaction. While this isn’t new to me—this is the price of living my life, of going to things—it is new for him. And he doesn’t enjoy it.
“Just don’t talk to him. He’ll go away,” my boyfriend tells me again. His face is pale and he is clearly nervous and perhaps downright afraid of what the man will do to us — to him — next."
“Just don’t talk to him. He’ll go away,” my boyfriend tells me again. His face is pale and he is clearly nervous and perhaps downright afraid of what the man will do to us — to him — next."
"The time a man on a Greyhound bus put his hand on my leg and physically blocked my path as I tried to wriggle away while the man on his side, someone’s white-collar business dad lured in by the promise of nicer seats and outlets on the bus, looked worried but said nothing."
"The time a customer cornered me in the alley outside of the restaurant where I worked during a cigarette break and two college men lingered with a concerned air, but ultimately decided to keep walking."
"The time a man who was visibly having a psychotic break swung a padlock at me and threatened to “smash your face, bitch” despite the company of an extremely nervous male friend who was very graciously walking me home “for safety.” He asks after the fact how I could remain so calm and I just shrug."
"The time when, walking with my current partner, a drunk man stumbled from a bar and waved a golf club in our direction and it was me that he locked his eyes upon, but my partner who was the most upset. I oblige the imposition just long enough to steer us into a bodega until the man leaves."
"Seeing it happen this time, though, doesn’t seem to breed empathy in my boyfriend. Instead, it confirms everything that he believes. I didn’t ignore the man, and now he’s here, in our presence, in our life, wicking up our time and attention like water. I smiled and I was polite and that is why he talked to me — though of course, I was paying exactly no attention to him before he began to demand mine. I was doing exactly nothing to invite this man’s leering and sexually aggressive language, except for existing as a woman, which for many men is more than enough."
"And then there’s that question — shouldn’t you be grateful? Doesn’t it feel good to have so many people interrupting your day just to show their interest? Wouldn’t anyone love to be showered with compliments at unexpected moments?"
"But my body is not the battleground for this fight and my personal safety is not a currency I am willing to exchange for ending it because even if I cash it in it will persist."
"What all of her haters are doing to Kesha underscores the rape myth narrative that there are just "some girls" who are putting themselves at risk for sexual assault simply because they present themselves a certain way. After all, the girls who flirt, drink too much, and dress provocatively are the ones who are “asking for it.”"
"This weekend, a young woman is going to go to a house party or a bar. She might have a little too much to drink, she might be wearing a mini skirt and she might have on tons of dramatic eye makeup. Independently, those factors mean nothing. But she might also meet a boy at this party who doesn’t understand that no really means no, that consent often can’t be given while intoxicated, and that just because you dress a certain way doesn’t mean you’re “asking for” anything."
College students report an attempted rape by a professor. A female professor tells them to forget about it, these things happen to women in college.
"How can we discount 50% of the world's intelligence and still call ourselves civilized?" Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about women and science.
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