Day 33: Let it go, bitches!

"Back in 2010, police arrested a 31-year-old Californian man for hacking into young women's computers and spying on them.

According to FBI, the hacker "used malicious code to infect and control the computers of his victims." He would search and download explicit images, then use them to manipulate the women and get more material."

comment on a Jian Ghomeshi article: ""I don't know if Ghomeshi will be convicted. Knowing the absolute brokenness of the Canadian justice system when it comes to sexual assault cases, I am deeply skeptical of such an outcome."

So if the court finds him guilty, then he is guilty, full stop. But, because of the "brokenness of the justice system", if the verdict is innocent, he might or might not be innocent. Quite a damning blanket statement to make with respect to our courts. It is difficult not to conclude that, in this case the court of public opinion is somewhat out of control."

Gif of man attempting to kiss teenage girl who keeps pulling away from him. That doesn't stop him from kissing her.

"Are we sure this wasn’t a false flag by the feminazis to make the GGers look bad? GGers have never harassed anyone. It’s about the ethics in gaming journalism, not misogyny."

"Clark has successfully urged the Department of Justice to devote more time to investigating and prosecuting severe online harassment, specifically calling out the terrifying threats directed at Zoe Quinn, Brianna Wu and Anita Sarkeesian by Gamergate fans. For her trouble, as the Globe was first to report, she was the victim of swatting, where someone calls in a false report of an active shooter or other dangerous emergency. It’s designed to provoke a heavily armed police response, and can be deadly."

"Rep. Katherine Clark, the Boston Congresswoman who has been working tirelessly since last year to ensure the Department of Justice treats online harassment and abuse with the severity it deserves, was targeted in a shooting hoax Sunday night at her home.

In what is almost assuredly not a coincidence, Clark sponsored a bill last year that would make ‘swatting’ hoaxes like the one she experienced this week a federal felony. Swatting is an incredibly dangerous form of harassment and abuse in which perpetrators anonymously send armed police to a victim’s home. On Sunday, Clark, her husband, and their two sons were at home when, as reported by The Boston Globe, “multiple officers, some with long guns” appeared on the Congresswoman’s lawn in response to a false report of an active shooter at her house.

Thankfully, the incident was resolved safely."

Congresswoman Who Spoke Out Against Gamergate and Online Harassment Targeted by Swatters

"Here we have five simple steps American women can adopt today to drastically lower their odds of being a victim of sexual assault. An added benefit of not dressing like a slut, not drinking to the point of intoxication, not being physically intimate with complete strangers, and not going to shady neighborhoods is that you drastically increase your chances of meeting a decent guy who is interested in more than one night stands and drug abuse.

The choice is simple: take the five common sense steps above, stay safe and sane, and perhaps even meet a good man—or continue using snark and sarcasm while putting your body, health, and mental state at risk. It’s a simple choice, but something tells me that, sadly, American women are going to have to learn this lesson the hard way."

A Return of Kings article on the five steps to stay safe. Including stay at an arm's length from men, avoid going out at night, don't drink or use drugs, wear modest clothing, and stay with your own group.

"As an elected or appointed official, there are various ways to respond when a reporter puts a microphone in your face and asks about some questionable spending of public money. “No comment” always works fine, or angry silence while charging towards the exit. One thing that’s apparently less effective: telling a reporter “That’s exactly the bitch I thought you’d be.” Oh?

We can take this unnecessary lesson from Roy Buchanan, the former Chairman for the Davidson County Election Commission, who has tendered his resignation after the investigative team at Nashville’s WSMV found he and Election Administrator Kent Wall were spending a lot of money that wasn’t theirs on restaurants and picture frames."

Men defend how women scientists are written about, including their marital status and family achievements instead of their career, because it's a 'nice' thing to say.

"Herold noted that separating “good” (Zika-infected) and less good (typical) abortion seekers into separate categories would only backfire and add to abortion’s stigma. And Pamela Merritt, co-founder of reproductive direct action group ReproAction, lives in Missouri, which she notes has a mosquito problem during much of the year and a healthcare policy problem during all of it. She compares the potential crisis of Zika to the current disaster in Flint, Michigan, calling it a “perfect storm” about to hit any warm state with bad policy on the books. “You can build all the walls you want on the border, but you’re not going to stop the mosquitoes from coming up,” she told me."

More on the zika virus: "The situation reads like a combination of Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale with P.D. James’ Children of Men; women are being forced to get pregnant by government policy limiting family planning, while simultaneously being urged not to reproduce, with no help to that end. (Men are being given no behavioral guidelines, it should be noted, because governments seem to think men have nothing to do with pregnancy). Governments are entering gang-ridden areas to control mosquito populations, yet women’s control of their reproduction is barely being discussed."

Article on the Zika virus: "After all, the element that brings this crisis from “emergency” into “totally fucking dystopian” realm is the fact that the virus is wreaking havoc in countries with dismal, even draconian approaches to abortion and contraception. In El Salvador, for instance, where women have just been told to avoid getting pregnant until 2018, abortion is punishable by jail sentences, which means miscarriages can be criminally investigated, while birth control and sex ed are hard to come by throughout the region. Even in Brazil, abortion is only legal in limited cases, and women whose babies have been born with microcephaly say they’ve been “abandoned by the state.”"

Franzen said the only thing he could to make women happy was die, or retire and stop writing. "Funnily enough, his words were similar to those of considerably less famous Feminspire co-creator Ben Schoen, who this week went on a Twitter meltdown — and then explained in a statement that it was okay because “I have done more for the cause of advancing women’s rights than any of the people who are criticizing me.”"

An article discussing author Jonathan Franzen. " Three years ago, he wrote a New Yorker feature on Edith Wharton that he now describes to the Guardian as “deliriously praising celebration” — and in which he repeatedly made mention of her “one potentially redeeming disadvantage: she wasn’t pretty.” And earlier this year, he snarled that “There’s something about Jennifer Weiner” — the bestselling novelist who regularly uses her social media platform to question the literary world’s gender and genre expectations — “that rubs me the wrong way, something I don’t trust.” He went on to say that “She’s an unfortunate person to have as a spokesperson,” and then proudly declared he’d never read her."

"In 2005, the Woman Abuse Council of Toronto conducted the study Women Charged with Domestic Violence in Toronto: The Unintended Consequences of Mandatory Charge Policies. Researchers interviewed 19 women who were charged with abuse of their intimate partners. Seventeen participants stated they had a history of physical, emotional and sexual abuse by the same male partner. Women in this study felt fearful, coerced, controlled, isolated, dominated, as well as being physically, verbally, and sometimes sexually abused. Ten of the male partners had previous domestic violence charges filed against them. Six of the women called police for protection from their male partner, but instead were arrested."

The article discusses why the reports of domestic abuse against males is higher than what is actually happening: "When misinterpreted, this use of defensive force can result in her wrongful arrest resulting in some very serious, long-term consequences.

According to Mosher, women charged with assault using a weapon are using empty tape dispensers, empty water bottles, or cell phones as a means of defending themselves against their abusers. However, the fact that a "weapon" was used makes this a more serious charge than simpler charges of assault or attempted assault.

By comparison to women, men are more likely to be charged with common assault, and this may be due to the fact that men are usually larger and stronger than their female victims. Post-separation crimes including criminal harassment, uttering threats, and murder are almost exclusively perpetrated by men. This is not surprising because abusers need to maintain power and control over their partners especially after separation."

An article on domestic violence and gender equality. "In Canada, domestic violence accounts for one in four crimes reported to the police. Males are the dominant aggressor in 83 per cent of the cases. Spousal violence is most prevalent amongst 25 to 34 year olds. Fewer than 25 per cent of victims of domestic violence report to police. Every six days a woman is killed by a current or former partner accounting for 16 per cent of all homicides in Canada."

On tumblr.
Boy: I wish more girls liked video games.
Girl: I like video games.
Boy: no you don't. fuck you. what's the length of Mario's inseam.

"if people can ask questions when their face is in your cleavage, then your boobs aren't big enough."

RAs worry about "Secret Feminists Agents." I suddenly feel my calling.

About Trump's treatment of women. "Megyn Kelly, a Fox News presenter, grilled Donald Trump, who is running for the Republican nomination for president, about a series of nasty things he had said about women in the past. She began her question “You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.” Mr Trump quipped “Only Rosie O’Donnell,” referring to an actress and comedian he has feuded with, and then said that political correctness was one of America’s biggest problems. In a later interview, he attacked Ms Kelly: “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her…wherever.” This sparked a fresh media frenzy, causing Mr Trump’s campaign to say that “only a deviant” would think he was referring to Ms Kelly’s having her period. He later retweeted that she was a “bimbo”. Despite Mr Trump’s later claim—“I cherish women!”—when someone has such a long history of saying such loathesome things, we should apply “misogyny” without qualms."

A man says in regards to feminism: “I think it's really important that you make the movement more welcoming to men.”

"I think your heart is in the right place but you make men feel like patriarchy is all our fault."

“I have more of a problem with the way you confront misogyny than with misogyny.”

"Sometimes I feel like women take sexism so personally, they can't see the issues clearly."

"Let it go, bitches."

"Go be a feminist somewhere else."

A woman scolds other women for not liking the phrase 'belong to my husband' on a shirt. "Half of you who are complaining are not even married so why do you care second when you get married you become one.. The hoodie doesn't say your his property it simply means your taken so back off. I swear you females kill me. Your pissed if a man claims you your pissed if he doesn't claim you.. Proud to be taken by my husband for those of you who have no sense of humor."

A hoodie. It says: "Warning. I belong to my husband. Messing with me can be very dangerous for your health."

Vintage looking book cover of a woman with her shirt undone to suggestively show some cleavage as she stands, arms up leaning on the door of her RV door, her legs positing to give her hips a nice hike on one side. The text around it reads: "Bookmobile bad girl. She gave it away for free all over town!"

Blue background. A woman screen-named as babyzuko writes: "The deeply worrying thing about catcalling is that the catcaller must know that their target isn't going to turn around and fall in to their arms pleading 'oh dear my please have sex with me here and now.' A lot of the time they know that. Often they don't do it for that, someone who shouts 'nice tits' from a van isn't trying to date you. They're trying to humiliate you, reinforce their dominance over you; it's an exercise of male power. It's a way of communicating 'I can say and do whatever I want to you, no matter how inappropriate or how uncomfortable it makes you feel, and you can't do anything about it.' Catcalling is not a compliment, it's a threat."

The Satanic Temple Facebook's picture is a woman with horns, wings, a guitar, with lots of tattoos, and is naked. Instead of nipples there are eyeballs.

Bill Cosby may be able to escape a felony charge because of a deal he made in 2005.

"While weeping in bed that night, feeling utterly betrayed, I realized this wasn’t the first time I had been slut-shamed by my mother. Although I was raised feminist by her, she still taught me to dress modestly, keep my curtains closed when I changed, and basically shield myself from all the men in the world, who had the potential to sexually assault me. Like almost every woman in the world, I grew up with a fear of walking alone at night, of showing cleavage (lest some sex-crazed man think it an invitation to rape me), of being afraid to change in front of a window, or even a turned-off webcam. I realized that she had unknowingly been teaching me how to victim-blame."

A woman talks about being slut shamed by her feminist mother. "The first time my mother learned that I was having sex while single — with multiple partners — we inevitably had an argument. “To me, it’s very unethical,” she said, and I surprised both her and myself by launching into an unexpectedly articulate tirade about how what she had just said was a form of slut-shaming."

An article on the African American women who helped NASA from the early days whom are never spoken of behind the wall of masculinity that most believe NASA to be. "But, in reality, women have been involved behind-the-scenes in planning space flights since the beginning. Just last month, Barack Obama awarded the presidential medal of freedom—America’s highest civilian honor—to a 97-year-old mathematician named Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson. You might not have heard her name in history class, but Katherine did some life-saving work back in 1962. In her job at NASA, she calculated the trajectory for astronaut John Glenn's pioneering space mission to orbit Earth. Katherine co-authored the research and equations that laid out how to send Glenn into orbit and how to bring him back home safely. Johnson is just one part of a cadre of African American women who did crucial calculations for the space workforce during the Cold War. Author Margot Lee Shetterly tells the stories of these women in her new upcoming Hidden Figures: The African American Women Mathematicians Who Helped NASA and the United States Win the Space Race (which is due out from Harper Collins in fall 2016)."

"While the images accompanying the meet-up directions look like promos for a medieval-themed bear night, these paragons of neo-masculinity are just looking for a safe space away from the feminists and queer people that oppress them.

They even have a plan in case “crazy feminists show up.”

“Record them with your camera, upload the footage to Dropbox, and then send it to me at roosh@rooshv.com afterwards so we can tear them up,” Roosh writes."

Article on the Return of Kings. "The followers of Daryush Valizadeh, noted homophobe, misogynist, rape-enthusiast, anti-Semite, friend of Neo-Nazis and alleged sewer-person will be having a global meetup, which includes 10 Canadian cities on that day. Valizadeh, who goes by Roosh V, will be attending the meet-up in Washington DC.

Roosh V is a self-styled seduction expert who holds clinics for wanna-be pick-up artists, all the while promoting his hateful ideology of “neomasculinity” through books and his website, Return of Kings."

'Legal rape' fanboys to host covert meetings in 10 Canadian cities.
Women and LGBT people banned from attending.

The mayor of Ottawa tells Roosh V that his "misogynistic, homophobic garbage" is not welcome in Ottawa.

A group of MRAs meets in queens park on Saturday. What do they want? To legalize rape.

Day 32: Insert A Bitch Here

Three women in a room. Myself and two friends. My one friend describes a man harassing her on one train, following her to transfer to another train, sitting across from her, then sitting on the same side as her and leering at her, and then getting off at the same stop. She ran home. The other woman describes being followed to the point of needing to call the cops, more than once. She talks about how often she gets off of a train to wait for the next one to get away from harassment. Last week a man intervened in her being harassed by a "guy who sounded like he was from Seven." I discuss the men who used to watch me unload trucks at Pet Valu and the amount of harassment I got. The first woman mentions to the second woman that she had seen someone try to get into the building after the second woman when she and her partner had dropped the second woman off. All of us make a face about how sketchy that is.

Stalker jokes.

Man talks about his friend's experience. "I was chatting to a female acquaintance at a gig a while ago and she told me that virtually not a day went by when she wasn't subject to some form of harassment on her journey home. Ranging from the low-level irritating intrusions of privacy and personal space right up to verbal abuse and outright threats."

More on dealing with men on the train. "We’ve all been bothered by persistent guys who pester us relentlessly, believing themselves to be entitled to our company and more. We’re under pressure to be polite and manage their expectations. Ignored men are angry men, and it’s horrible to sit silently while a man shouts at a packed carriage: “She thinks she’s too good to talk to me!”

When it comes to responding to harassers, you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t – and sometimes it gets to the point when dealing with entitled idiots is so exhausting that you feel safer staying at home."

"My Mum once told me her biggest regret was that she’d brought her daughters up to be so polite. It happened after one of my little sisters came home in tears. A “friendly” man at the train station had started making comments about her legs and asking if she had a boyfriend. “I really wanted to ignore him, but I didn’t want to be rude! I didn’t know what to do!” she wept. She was 14 at the time." A woman writes about the British train system.

Black and white photo of a shark. It's mouth is open wide. Text inside the mouth reads: "Insert a bitch here."

Black background. Purple text: "A woman does not have to be modest to be respected."

Article on women and heart attacks. "Take it from me: the only thing worse than a heart attack is being misdiagnosed and sent home from hospital while you’re having it. And for women in particular, this is a tragically all-too-common reality. Research on cardiac misdiagnoses reported in The New England Journal of Medicine(1), for example, looked at more than 10,000 heart patients (48% of them women) who had gone to their hospital Emergency Departments with chest pain or other significant heart attack symptoms. Women younger than 55 were SEVEN TIMES more likely to be misdiagnosed and turned away from the E.R. than their male counterparts.

The consequences of this reality for women were enormous: being sent home from the hospital in mid-heart attack doubled their chances of dying."

"I rarely run into blatant sexism, but with doctors it's common. My concerns are dismissed with one or more of the following: 'It's all in your head.', 'There is no such thing.', 'Other people do fine.' 'Smile! You look prettier when you smile!' Being dismissed by a surgeon has left me with permanent nerve damage in my leg. When I complained he said,'Well, you can still go shopping!'"

A man shares the story of his partner: "A hospital nearly killed my fiance in 2004 in a similar fashion.

She had severe abdominal pain. For god knows what reason, although they knew she was on depo-provara, they obsessed about the possibility that she might be pregnant and did practically nothing to help her until hours later. \

When I brought her in, she was in pain, but had been functioning at work etc. and had some pain for days prior, so if they'd dealt with it expeditiously she probably would have been right in a couple of days.

A few hours later somebody came in and gave her an antibiotic pill or two. That was around 1 pm, I'd brought her in at 10 a.m.

By the time they started treating the infection seriously, she was pale, cool and clammy, which for somebody trained in first aid as I was, told me she was going into shock.

That was around 5 pm, when the doctor started to look alarmed and finally got her on I.V. antibiotics.

It took months for her to recover, and that was completely avoidable if they had treated extreme abdominal pain like the lights and sirens kind of medical emergency it is supposed to be treated like. That's the first aid protocol for such a situation, extreme abdominal pain can be from multiple life threatening conditions that can neither be verified nor treated in the field, get the person to hospital code 3 (or if close, as she was, just take her straight there)."

Yet another talking about her health care experience. "They told her she was ovulating, patronized her and told her husband how so many women come in and they usually are overly dramatic about their cycle aches and pains, and sent her home despite her telling them she felt as if something was really wrong inside and that it wasn't even time to be ovulating. She begged them to do further testing as her fever was rising. But nope, it was that crazy woman hysteria and ovulation according to them.

She was brought back a few hours later in septic shock in the back of an ambulance, and she spent a couple of weeks on antibiotics in ICU fighting for her life. "

Another woman talks about her experience in health care: "My daughter was told over and over, mostly by male doctors, that there was nothing wrong with her; that her pain was all in her head. She was also accused of drug-seeking. After exploratory surgery, it turned out she had massive internal scar-tissue buildup from the removal of an ovary several years ago. I'm glad she persisted until she found a doctor that took her seriously. I had the same thing happen years ago when a male doctor told me my stomach pain was all in my head. I saw a female doctor and she immediately said, "sounds like your gallbladder." It was, and it was removed. I hate to sound sexist, but I'll only see a male doctor as a last resort."

A doctor told a woman with symptoms she was just a woman with anxiety. He told students this as well. Here's what happened next: "It happened in the big snowstorm of '16, being picked up by firemen and transported over snow and ice to an ambulance that couldn't get to our house in the snow. And then into an ER, elevated troponin levels, T-wave inversions on my EKG, suddenly things started happening very quickly, and an overnight stay, then a transfer to a larger hospital, then a heart catheterization that was almost turned into bypass surgery because of the 90 percent blockage in a main artery, then an unfortunate, big bleed that has left me flat on my back for the past 38 hours.

Yeah, that sounds just like anxiety.

And the sad fact is that I waited. I waited because I felt shamed into feeling like an hysterical female, shamed into feeling like I was just anxious. JUST anxious. Like anxiety itself is something that isn't real when we know that it is. Like anxiety is something to be ashamed of or embarrassed by. When our lives, bodies, souls, are in distress, anxiety is a likely outcome. Wear it proudly. It might save your life one day, and it can be treated, too."

On sexism in health care: "The doctor came in after a bit and explained things more thoroughly with this new audience, teaching while not listening, rather than just not listening.

We talked for a while. And then the bottom line, as the doctor talked to the med student.

"What we really are dealing with here is anxiety. Because it is anxiety that would take her to the ER on a Saturday with what might be a blood clot. Most people would wait until Monday and call here to get an appointment, but she went to the ER. This is just anxiety we need to be treating."

"HELLO? I AM SITTING RIGHT HERE," I thought to myself.

"AND HELLO? THEY ACTUALLY FOUND A BLOOD CLOT IN MY LEG, SO THERE!" I thought to myself."

"Who wears the pants. Unfortunately, however, the phrase relies on some very gendered notions of what it means to "wear the pants." In this sense, "wearing the pants" refers to being the dominant person in the relationship and making decisions."

Another from the phrases that are misogynistic. "But you're too pretty to cry. This phrase is often meant to a compliment, but is actually much more nuanced and problematic. First, it relies on the idea that women are "supposed" to be pretty. From there, it relies on the idea that women should be valued on their level of perceived attractiveness."

Article on common phrases that are misogynistic. ""Whipped" is pretty common in our vernacular, and breaks down into two usages. "P*ssy whipped" is a phrase we often hear in reference to a man who is controlled by his female partner's sexual wiles. "Whipped" can also refer to a partner, usually a male, being more submissive and dependent, because the female partner is controlling, bossy, and domineering. This phrase hinges on the idea that if a woman is in charge, she's taken on the negative traits typical of male leaders, while the man in the relationship is afraid of standing up to her. Of course, this stereotype also hurts men, as it implies that if men are not in dominant roles, they are weak or inept."

Picture of Stan Lee. Text: "When asked if online comics would replace actual books, Stan Lee said: 'Comics are like boobs. They look great on a computer, but I'd rather hold one in my hand.'"

Woman using a kettlebell. Text: "Lifting weights makes women huge. FALSE. Cupcakes make women huge."

Also apparently my links to how there was sexism in suicide squad were "dishonest"

Calling a celebrity a rapist after there is heavy documentation about it is apparently making a rape joke.

I talked about how the social media on DC being busier than Marvel's was also partly due to the fact that people are saying a lot of bad things too. I give examples, mentioning how Enchantress is sexist (her costume). I post links about this because a man said I was wrong. He said the author was forwarding a feminist agenda and dismissed it, so I linked another. The man who has the thread said "Thanks for playing" and deleted my comment thread.

I was literally just silenced for having an unpopular opinion about something they were excited about.

This was the post about sexism in DC' Suicide Squad. The man who's thread it is deleted everything I said.

A man replies to my articles on Enchantress being sexist in the new DC Suicide Squad movie by saying the writer of the article is just trying to forward her agenda.

Basically got told to stop talking when I pointed out problematic content in DC's Suicide Squad, being that Enchantress' costume is problematic and the multiple accusations of rape against Leto.

See-Scape has a naked woman with tubes attached to her by the bar and a wall of Heavy Metal magazines... basically sexually posed women on an entire wall.

A movement to make a safe ride program for Indigenous women.

"I got tired of hearing what’s happening with taxis with our indigenous people, especially the women, and enough’s enough now. It was time to do something about it. I made my post and it’s been crazy ever since," Flett said. He said he doesn’t trust taxis for his own four daughters.

A girl in India is raped.

"Police arrested the accused, identified as Shambhu Mahato, on Monday morning from a locality of the steel city, about 130 km from capital Ranchi.

Police also detained 12 fellow security guards, including a woman, for allegedly helping Mahato to flee after committing the crime at the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (MGMCH).

Police said the 13-year-old victim was admitted to the hospital on Saturday after she was allegedly raped by a teenager in the Parsudih area of the city on January 26.

At the hospital, the security guard allegedly accompanied her to the bathroom and raped her, police added. The incident took place at around 7 pm."

Hillary Clinton's viability as president and representative of women's rights, despite decades of working with women to forward equality and equal rights, routinely goes under question because of her partner. “I don’t blame Hillary Clinton at all for this. I don’t think she’s responsible for his behavior. But I do think her position as promoting women’s rights and fairness to women in the workplace, that if Bill Clinton did, any CEO in our country did with an intern … in their office, they would be fired. They would never be hired again.” [about Bill Clinton’s affair with his intern Monica Lewinsky.] “She can’t be a champion of women’s rights at the same time she’s got this that is always lurking out there, this type of behavior, so it’s difficult.”

A discussion on DC being bigger in social media feed than Marvel right now. I bring up the problematic nature of Enchantress' costume. Dude replies that she looks awesome.

Day 31: Rapists gonna rape

Woman talks about catcaling: "All women have these moments. All of us. And yet the world acts as if it's still our problem to fix." ‪

A woman talks about her morning commute. "This is what I was wearing this morning as I made my way through a crowded 34th Street subway station, and a man passing by me said, "Damn, you have some great legs." When I ignored him and kept walking, he turned around to follow me, to get closer, even as I was moving away. "Did you hear me, honey? I said you have nice legs. Damn! Thank you.""

Judgements on a cartoon girl. It says "Fake boobs. Slutty clothes. Too much makeup. Unnecessary accessories. 500 Boyfriends."

Grease: "Even though Danny and Sandy apparently had a perfectly lovely relationship before school started, if she wants to prove she's really deserving of his attention again, all she has to do is change every single thing about herself, from her appearance to her attitude, and take up smoking."

Jurassic World: "Once again, here's a lady who's presumably good at her job, but treated like she's a withholding ice queen because of it, when men who are distinctly not good at their jobs don't get even close to the same treatment. And don't even get me started on the running in heels thing."

An article discussing sexist movies. This one speaks of Interstellar. "If Anne Hathaway's character is that high up in NASA, it's probably that she's good at her job, right? And, when people are good at their job, they don't usually throw it all away — and by "all" I mean "the fate of the entire world" — just because they have a crush on a coworker, right? Unless they're a a woman in a Christopher Nolan movie, apparently."

An article discussing the Jian Ghomeshi trial beginning. "On Monday, former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi will face the first trial for numerous sexual assault allegations made against him, The Guardian reports. In October 2014, three women came forward with stories of abuse from Ghomeshi, with one claiming he choked her almost to the point of unconsciousness.

A CBC employee claimed Ghomeshi had once grabbed her butt at the office and told her that he wanted to “hate-fuck” her. In the following weeks, more accusers, including one male, came forward saying Ghomeshi had groped, punched or choked them without warning. The number of alleged victims had reached more than twenty.

Man weighs on rape cultre on a post talking about how women get blamed for their rapes. "Rapists gonna rape...that'll never change. There is no justifying it, so I'm not sure what the point of this post is. However, there is something that should be brought to higher awareness...and that is the punishment of women who falsely accuse men of raping them. Women who did it for petty revenge or got busted cheating on their mate, so they claimed rape to save face. I have met men who were falsely accused. It ruined their life. Even after exoneration, you lose all credibility in society, can never own a firearm again, and end up staying on the sex offender list long after it's over. If it were up to me, I'd pass a law that made women serve the same sentence as the accused rapist would have if found innocent...but, I'm sure I'm just being a chauvinist."

Another man joins the argument: "Notice how a bunch of bitchy girls get mad when you try to simply help? Its cunts like you who stay single "where all the good guys at" lmao grow up" ‪

A man is called sexist by a woman for saying rape happens to unprepared women. His response: " you can easily tell your a feminist, especially by the lack of intelligence thinking me just being a male im wrong lmao as i can tell a dick is in your mouth today, not your hand"

A man gives rape advice: "True. But you hang around the barber shop too long you will get a hair cut. Just stick together and carry mace. I beieleive all auto parts stores have pepper spray"

A woman writes in a safe space about her experience with rape: "I am 17 years old. At 11 I was put into a foster home to be adopted where I was raped almost every night I was there. I will spare the gruesome details but it has left its scars. When I tried to speak up I was told I was crazy, that it didn't happen."

Image of Morpheus from the Matrix with Neo reflected in his glasses. Text says: "What if I told you friendzoning is bullshit because girls are not machines that you put kindness coins into until sex falls out."

"No man is responsible for the size of his dick but every woman are responsible for the smell of her pussy." ‪

"being friendzoned sucks"

Tweet: "rape culture and patriarchal values are KILLING GIRLS. feminism is UPSETTING WHITE BOYS ON THE INTERNET."

"I had an emotionally abusive partner several years ago tell me that I didn't look pretty when I smiled with my teeth. Literally every single time I smile with teeth in photos, those words play in the back of my mind." 

She talks about her body image after posting a selfie that didn't make her look slimmer, unlike another picture she had: "As time went on, I kept fantasizing about what it would be like to take down that image and replace it with the one taken at a better angle in a few weeks. I had to confront my body image issues head-on with this one. Despite considering myself a body positive proponent, it was truly difficult to not equate my self-worth with this photo that was making me feel inadequate. " ‪

A woman talks about posting ugly photos of herself on Instagram as an experiment: "I decided to start the ‪#‎uglyphotochallenge‬ on my birthday, of all days. And I found that posting an "ugly" photo of myself with a scowl on my face and no makeup on actually made me feel like shit. It didn't really matter to me what people might say, or whether they commented at all. It just made me feel like I was putting a less than desirable version of myself out there — one I didn't gravitate toward naturally." ‪

Because women are tasked with maintaining relationships and social stress, they tend to feel stress longer and more strongly.

An article discussing how men and women suffer stress differently. "Scientific studies to date have often relied on male experimental subjects, causing us to miss out on insights specific to women." ‪

Forbes releases an article on the highest paid athletes of the last decade. Ranking in at number 18 of 20, Maria Sharapova is the only female to make the list.

"So last night 3 black girls at UALBANY were assaulted on the bus by 3 white males while being called niggers and my university did not even properly respond to the situation until they saw people were upset on social media THE NEXT DAY. "

Girls tend to limit their aspirations around age 16 due to sexist and harmful laws and attitudes.

A friend describes her time when she passed as male, and how much more often people would come to her for help at her place of employment.

Boob windows in super hero costumes. ‪

My friend and I discuss the beauty standard in nerd culture, and she mentions that she feels she does the gaming community a disservice by being a fat woman

A friend talks about disliking a picture of herself due to how she feels she looks, and how she wishes she were a man. ‪

Helen Mirren article on how good she looks for her age.

"Super tacky!" About women showing their cleavage. 

Another comment on Susan Sarandon's breasts: "Pity it's sagging to her knees now...."

A picture of Susan Sarandon with her cleavage showing. A comment: ""nominated for a SAG"... what an unfortunate acronym."

"She looks amazing for her age." 

Black and white photo of a woman. White text "Never push a crazy bitch to the point where she no longer fears her actions." ‪

"Have you seen what some women are calling a "wedding dress"? At least you'll look respectable! It's your day!" On a woman wearing her military dress to her wedding.

Woman taking a mirror photo of herself in her military uniform. Text says: "I want to wear my uniform when I get married. Men do it all the time. I've earned it!" 

Scott Pilgrim vs The World (movie).

Guy likes manic pixie dream girl. Must fight all her exes to get her. She's not the main character. It's about his pursuit of her. He also comments on her history of exes throughout the entire film. ‪

"Smile." "Why don't you give us a smile?" "You'd be prettier if you smiled."

The treatment of Clara, by the Doctor, and mostly by Stephen Moffat.

Witness: Anything you can do...

One day, I was sitting at a table with a friend preparing to play a game. We're joking about how one nerd culture thing or another is sexist. My friend, being the clever girl she is, turns and looks at me and goes. "I can be misogynistic if I want!"

I give her my quirked eyebrow what-you-just-said-is-problematic look.

She grins at me.

"Anything men can do I can do."

We laugh. It's funny. But what underlies that joke, that women would want to participate in misogyny because anything men can do we can do too, is a horrible and upsetting truth. Just as men uphold the patriarchy and culture of sexism we've come to see as a normal tint on the world, women do it too.

How women participate in sexism is different (usually) then how men do. With men it's often less subtle. At least, the men I deal with. They like things that remind them of the good ole days. They comment on a woman's appearance via her attractiveness (nice tits, ass, etc). They talk about women as objects. They talk over women. They ignore women. They say women aren't helpful. They default to men.

But the subtlety of the patriarchy sneaks its way into the words and actions of women. The easiest example of this is slut shaming. Men participate in this too, but women also do this an alarming amount. They talk about her skirt being too short or her shirt too low or that she's such a slut because she's slept with x, y, and x. We cut women down based on what we see as what makes them valuable.

Women are praised for being less sexually experienced. So to devalue another woman, we say she's easy. We say she's ugly because men value looks. We say she's using too much makeup, implying she's hiding how ugly she is. We use common misogynistic language to tear each other down, like bitch, cunt, whore, slut, and others. It's casually misogynistic and yet we routinely engage in it.

Fat shaming and thin shaming and body shaming are perpetuated by women. Treating women without respect because of their opinions is another common tactic. "When are you going to have children?" "I'm not." "Oh, you'll change your mind when you're older." Women routinely disrespect other women on gender biases. Our gender roles, that of being caregiver and mother, are tossed in our faces when we choose not to participate in them. Women will comment on how good of a partner or wife other women are.

The social construction of what makes a woman are the very same tools we use to tear women down. Women perpetuate misogyny. I've slut shamed. I've called someone a bitch. I've used female anatomy as derogatory words. I've told people they'd change their mind about having kids. And all these things have happened to me by women.

So what do you do when the people who are supposed to be your allies are also the ones perpetuating the problem? Same thing you'd do if it were a man. Educate. Have a conversation. Begin the wheels turning in their head. I find when I confront a woman about sexism, she's less inclined to threaten me, in fact, I've never been threatened by a woman when called on being sexist. That's only happened to me with men.

We need to stop engaging in the sexist culture we live in. We, as a group, need to support one another and have great conversations. Sexism is everywhere. We need to pull it apart from any angle we can. And one of those will be ending the women against women dynamics we're encouraged to take part in.