Day 55: Get raped you fucking cunt

Image of a woman dressed up as Rosie Riveter and the text reads: "Rape jokes are not jokes. Woman-hating jokes are not jokes. These guys are telling you what they think. When you laugh along to get their approval, you give them yours."

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."

"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.

Day 54: Sluttiness we teach our daughters

Only 3% of rapists spend a day or more in jail. 

A man says about women are afraid of men when they're raped, and how no one understands this. "This is because it is highly unlikely that it will happen again, and living in fear of half the world population is no way to live. Traumas are understandable, but don't let them define you."

Tumblr: "have you noticed when someone goes 'i was bitten by a dog once and now i'm kinda wary around them' most people go 'aw, i understand' but if a woman says she's been raped/abused by men in the past and is now scared of them she gets told she's paranoid and needs to get over it?"

"Though we’re all aware of the types of roles offered to women in Hollywood, it’s still a little shocking to see it all quantified. Just take a look at the top six occupations for Best Actress and Best Actor winners; you may not gasp at these percentages, but you might shake your head and sink in your chair a little.

Best Actress
Wife (16%)
Entertainer (14%)
Widow (11%)
Blue Collar/Service (11%)
Socialite/Heiress (8%)
Prostitute (7%)

Best Actor
Criminal (13%)
Military (11%)
Entertainer (10%)
Arts and Literature (8%)
Royalty/Nobility (8%)
Blue Collar (7%)"

Much like the death of Michael Brown spurred the discussion of racism in the US and gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement, in Canada, a turning point in race relations came with the gruesome death of 16-year-old Tina Fontaine who was found dead, wrapped in a plastic bag, floating in the Red River in Winnipeg, Manitoba. After running away from her reserve community of Sagkeeng after her father’s death, Tina Fontaine ended up in the care of Child and Family Services in Winnipeg. The troubled teen would continue to run away, ending up on the harsh streets of the inner-city and it eventually killed her. As the Winnipeg Press reports, homicide investigator Sgt. John O’Donovan called out to the public for help in solving the case."

"Another woman, who Marsalis allegedly raped over the course of a weekend, FedExed him a new pair of sheets after she woke up to find his bed soaked in her period blood. The Jekyll and Hyde-like switch between violence and tenderness can drive victims back to their abusers."

"One woman, whose case was prosecuted, told Self magazine in 2008 that Marsalis greeted her with “good morning” and a kiss after having anally raped her the night before. She agreed to another date."

"The way victims behave after a sexual assault is grossly misunderstood by the public and the legal system. "

"A social media firestorm has erupted after Scaachi Koul, an editor and writer for BuzzFeed Canada, shut down her Twitter account after several days of being slammed with abusive tweets."

"Women Get Called "Angry" While Men Get Called "Passionate""

"A study from 2015 in Law And Human Behavior found that people were far more likely to reject an angry female speaker's reasons than they were to reject an angry male's. And, upsettingly, a 2008 study found that both men and women gave less professional status to women who expressed anger, while men who showed anger were promoted."

"Ever been called an "angry feminist"? I have. It's one of the most-used terms when it comes to feminism; "angry feminism" has been discussed in The Guardian, TIME, MIC and the Huffington Post, all exploring why anger and feminism seem to go together in the public consciousness like Thanksgiving and pumpkin pie. Feminism seems to bring up images of Emmeline Pankhurst's arrest, the myth of 1968 bra-burning (which, by the way, never happened), and that word: anger. Anger everywhere. But to be called an "angry feminist" is demeaning, sexist, and highly offensive, in my seriously furious opinion." 

A woman speaks of her life: "Girls in this region are often taken out of school early to be married a young age. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is widely practised although it’s been illegal in Kenya since 2011. And once married, women here have little control over their own lives."

"“I came here with my stepmother when I was 15 years old”, says Judi Lerumbe, now 21. “My father wanted to marry me to a much older man but I was a young girl at the time. I remember how my stepmother refused my father’s wishes. We packed our belongings overnight and left to join the other women of Umoja”." 

"In late January, millions of Afghans watched Arian’s performance on Afghan Star, a wildly popular singing contest modeled on American Idol. As the lights illuminated the 23-year-old singer, one of only two female contestants, it became apparent this wasn’t an ordinary performance. It was a protest. Cloaked in a blue burqa, pulled back to show her face, Arian had smeared on dramatic makeup to simulate a beating. Thick streaks of bloody red paint ran underneath her nose, staining her lips and chin. Black smudges around her eyes resembled swollen bruises.

As she rose to her feet to encouraging whistles from the audience, Arian discarded her burqa, belting out original, metaphorical lyrics lamenting Afghan women’s lack of value in society. At the end, she fought back tears, as the judges, also visibly moved, rose for a standing ovation."

White background, colourful text: "Girls do not dress for boys."

"Slut-shaming rolled into advice, this is a whooper. People used to tell me I should stop having friends with benefits and I've had other friends be told that it was their one-night stands keeping them from being in a relationship. "

"There is no shortage of advice for single women. And I use the term "advice" generously, because normally it's somewhere between a lecture and single-shaming."

"Clinton was the first, and so far the only, first lady to pose for a presidential portrait in pants."

"Female flight attendants at British Airways just spent two years fighting for the right to wear pants on the job—and they finally won. The airline crew’s union, Unite, celebrated the triumph earlier this month, saying, “Female cabin crew no longer have to shiver in the cold, wet and snow of wintery climates, but also can be afforded the protection of trousers at destinations where there is a risk of malaria or the Zika virus.” Good news all around! Unite also declared, “Not only is the choice to wear trousers a victory for equality it is also a victory for common sense.”
But wait. Isn’t the equal right to make the common-sense decision of wearing pants a victory that women had already won? (At British Airways, trousers have been accepted wear for established crew since 2003, but the airline has applied different rules to attendants hired since a set of strikes in 2010.) Why are we still talking about women’s right to pants? Like many of women’s battles, pants-related activism stretches back centuries and continues with no sign of abating in the present day."

"Not even a full 20% of all best picture winners — over 87 years of awards — has starred a woman. That isn't just a disparity, it's a full-blown failure to recognize stories about women. This is maybe unsurprising, however, when one remembers exactly how old and male academy membership is." More on the Oscars.

About the Oscars: "Because the acting categories are split 50-50 — best actor and supporting actor versus best actress and supporting actress — there's an enforced gender parity. This makes the gender gap at the Oscars a little harder to notice at first blush. A closer look, however, reveals how underrepresented women are in nearly every other category.

Take last year's best picture race, for instance. Of the eight nominees, not one was actually about a woman. They were about everything from a boy growing up to Martin Luther King Jr., from a sniper to a mathematician. But all of them were men."

"But then, somewhere in the middle of the post-war 1900s, fashion had a crisis. Could there be trousers for women? How would they look? How would they be shaped? Because fashion is obsessed with slimming women's silhouettes (shocker) pockets started getting cut out of women's pants completely. "

"“He had a gun pointed at my head telling me it was my time to die,” Jessica Ortega wrote as she filled out her petition for a restraining order at the Pierce County Superior Court in Washington on Friday. At 6:15 am on Saturday, her estranged boyfriend Marcos Perea shot her dead."

A woman with acid scars on her face. The text: "Men throw acid on us because men are angry with us for ending relationships and for refusing sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, proposals of marriage, demands for dowry. They throw acid on us for attending schools, for not wearing Islamic veils, for not behaving well, for speaking too much, for laughing loudly."

Tweet: "always remember that in the american legal system a corporation is a person but a woman isn't."

Wendy Williams says of Kesha: “Unfortunately business is business, and it sounds like it’s fair. If everybody complained because somebody allegedly sexually abused them...contracts would be broken all the time...Kesha’s no spring chicken. I mean she’s like, 30 years old?...So she wasn’t stupid 10 years ago and neither was her mother when the sexual abuse—alleged sexual abuse—started, why weren’t they rolling camera on it?”

A man posts: "The sluttiness we teach our daughters to be women is the same that keeps us up at night worrying abt our sons. " 

White background, black text: "The violence we teach our sons in teaching them to Be Men is the same violence that keeps us up at night worrying about our daughters." 

Member of TAG: I love that the policies show up automatically on every event.
Me, in my head: They don't. I do this. I add it. Every. Single. Time.

A village bans single women from using cell phones.

Day 53: Cum Guzzling Stupid Whore

"Ex-NFL player Rae Carruth hired hit man to be sure this baby wasn’t born"

"Miami woman, 23, left in a coma after she was 'attacked by roommate she found on CRAIGSLIST who strangled her and cut her up on her birthday'"

A woman takes a selfie of her in a red bra and underwear with matching red lipstick. One commenter says: "Only a cum guzzling stupid whore like you would get half naked in front of a mirror to take a pic and make a comment about lipstick color."

A transwoman talks about her experiences: "We not only have to look a certain way (both in terms of passing and in terms of conforming to queer normative acceptable standards of appearance), we also have to make sure not to rock the boat too much. We have to appear as sane and calm as possible, no matter the circumstances. If we show too much emotion at any time (read: any inconvenient emotion), we get hit with a double whammy of misogyny and transphobia, quickly written off as hysterical "crazy trans women." Accuse the wrong person of something, anyone too close to queer-home, and that's the end of our credibility and the revoking of our entrance passes to Queerlandia.

"My doctor, who is a trans woman, and I had a conversation today about the guy who raped me earlier this year. At first she was like "did you charge him?" When I explained that he's a trans man of color, she immediately got why I hadn't. Not because I couldn't bear to put a trans person, especially a trans person of color, in jail (which I can't), but because it would cause me to be completely ostracized by the queer/trans community in Toronto. I'd be "just another crazy trans woman." It was an uncomfortable realization for both of us to sit there, as trans women, knowing that we have literally no recourse when violence is enacted on us within the community (though if the same violence conveniently came from a white cis straight man, we would be celebrated as heroes for standing up to such an easy target, at least within the queer/trans community)." 

"Rape and sexual violence were used as weapons of war in Guatemala, two expert witnesses in the Sepur Zarco sex slavery trial said Thursday.

The case, now in its third week, seeks to prove that the systematic rape of 11 women at the Sepur Zarco military base in the 1980s was a war crime. The indigenous Q’eqchi’ women were held captive as domestic slaves after their husbands were disappeared and murdered by the military.

Gender specialist Dr. Rita Laura Segato told the court: “Rape is not 'collateral damage' in war; rape is used strategically, it is a weapon of war.”"

"A man burned alive his heavily pregnant teenage lover because he didn’t want to be a father.

Eren Toben, the father-to-be, and his friend lured Maria Peiner, 19, into a wood on the outskirts of Berlin to kill her." 

"A scientist has said she was 'very shocked and angry' to be told she could not attend a conference where she was due to give a talk because she was seven months pregnant."

"I want to believe that I perform beauty for myself. And perhaps for other women who will appreciate the execution of a perfectly winged eyeliner, because that shit is hard. Yet because I'm aware of the thing we call "beauty standards" and its relationship to the male gaze, I cannot help but wonder how much of me is swiping on the lippie because it makes me feel empowered, and how much of me is swiping on the lippie because it makes me feel like I'll be more accepted."

Article on Tina Turner gracing the cover of Vogue. "She may be 73 but the queen of rock 'n' roll has still got it.
Giving the likes of Cara Delevingne and Edie Campbell a run for their money Tina Turner looks Simply The Best as she becomes the oldest person to grace the cover of the fashion bible.
The legendary singer looks half her age on the glossy cover of Vogue Germany's April 2013 issue sporting signature honey-blonde locks and dewy, youthful skin."

A man invited a woman over to his place for a party. he drugs her and then has sex with her. His friends video tape it. When she confronts him, he says "just because you don't remember it doesn't mean you didn't enjoy it."

"It's like a 3-in-1 thing. Now I can cross asian, dyke, and virgin off my list."

Looking at pictures of people talking about their rapes, one of them looks exactly like my ex. For a moment, I panic, thinking he sees himself as the victim. I read his story and realize it's not him. I keep staring at the picture and feeling my anxiety spiking each moment.

"But you invited him over. How does that make it his fault?" A therapist asks the woman who was raped. It was the first time she had told anyone.

"I'm going to check to see if everything is working. Shh, you can't let mommy or anyone here. Don't tell mommy." A woman's stepfather told her when he was abusing her, from age 7 - 14. 

"You're too pretty to be a lesbian." He said to her before he raped her.

"You had sex with ________!?!" A text from the best friend of the victim, two weeks after the man got her drunk and raped her. 

"Doesn't that feel good?" What her rapist said to her when she was 3 years old.

A woman is told this about her rape. She was 18. First year college: "This is why we have underage drinking laws. This is your fault. If you hadn't been drinking then this wouldn't have happened to you."

White background, black text: "If you're a guy who likes looking at pictures of naked girls but loses respects for a girl if she posts a naked picture of herself, you can get lost."

A woman is emailed by her boss when she takes selfies of wearing the store's clothing. She is an average size woman. ""Something I want to make sure you keep in mind. I want size small, the stereotypical 'model' to model our clothes. Please use our pictures of our models if Stillwater store can't find someone who would be considered 'model material.' This is not to put anyone down but to communicate expectations of presenting our brand. Don't take it personal, all I ask for is really good representation. In exchange for the freedom, I ask you to take down all pictures of anyone that doesn't fit the criteria."

Dr Luke tweets that he didn't rape Kesha. 

A woman speaks on her abuse: 'I know how hard it is to go through a court trial. I went through a seven year court trial because I was sexually assaulted by my moms ex husband. I didn't come forward for two years prior because I didn't know how speak up about it. I also didn't want to because it meant that it was that much more real." 

Another woman talks about her abuse: "I was angry and fed up and basically tipped off my attacker by contacting their family about the abuse. They (and my mother) told me I was, "asking for it.""

A woman talks about her rape: "I did press charges on the man who sexually assaulted me. Come to find the investigating officer was my assaulter's friend. Charges were dropped. Try to charge officer with "conflict of interest"...officer's father is a national officer, and charges get dropped....yes, please tell me why we don't try to bring them to justice."

"Kesha came forward with her allegations. She made them public. She has been put through the wringer -- emotionally, physically and professionally. B

"The truth is that there are few incentives to coming forward with an allegation of sexual assault. It means having to recount a trauma over and over again, to people who may not even believe that what you say happened actually happened. It means facing the judgments of those closest to you, and in Kesha's case, the judgments of the public who determine the success of her career. It means being picked apart, as people try to find just how "perfect" a victim you are. It may mean dealing with law enforcement officials and members of a jury who have been socialized to believe myths about rape.

"You've already been violated," Madonna told Howard Stern last year when he asked why she never reported a violent assault to the police in the late 1970s. "It's just not worth it. It's too much humiliation."" ‪

"Kesha is a wealthy, beautiful, white celebrity working at the upper echelons of an elite industry. Yet, even these privileges don't set her apart from other victims of sexual abuse who face a justice system that often doesn't protect them. Her story sheds light on why rape remains one of the most grossly underreported crimes. "

A woman makes a calendar to help break the stigma of Crohn's disease sufferers not feeling sexy. "Samantha Cawley wanted to prove that the pouches – similar to colostomy bags – are no barrier to being sexy.

The 28-year-old train driver said: “There’s a lot of stigma surrounding having an ostomy and it is something that needs to be stamped out.

“I know there are some women out there that don’t want to get naked in front of their partners because they are so self-conscious so, hopefully, this calendar will do something to help them rebuild their confidence.”"

A client today complains that she couldn't find any Rey toys.

Kesha alleges that Dr Luke would go out, get girls as drunk as possible, so he could fuck them in the ass. He also demanded his wife get an abortion and tried to blackmail her to do so.

Dr Luke's PR firm describes Kesha as "getting hard to control"

A woman comments on rape culture: ""And "when" you get raped (since it's inevitable) lay back and enjoy it then shut up about it, no one wants to hear about it.

No one will believe you because you are ugly or a slut so you brought it on yourself so why bother complaining?"

Tweet: "rape culture tells 'beautiful' women that they should EXPECT to be harassed/abused, while 'ugly' women should be happy for the 'attention.'"

Day 52: Rape you to death

A woman talks about a movie substituting the males for females. People say the movie sounds like a chick flick or downright ignore it. The story is the lion king.

"“Just remember exactly what I’m wearing right now just in case I go missing," the woman tells her roommate. She looks through her purse and lists all her essential items: Rape whistle, switch blade and, of course, pepper spray."

Peyton Manning’s many media prizefighters were out in full force on Saturday after the New York Daily News published a thorough account of a sexual-harassment claim levied against the 39-year-old quarterback when he was a college-football superstar at the University of Tennessee.

"Any man can treat a lady right for one night, but it takes a great man to treat her right for the rest of her life."

Taylor Swift gives $250,000 to Kesha to support her during this time.

"Melissa’s life was changed forever the night she was viciously attacked by a murderous ex-boyfriend, but in one crucial way the evening’s events also changed her for the better." Melissa was stabbed 32 times. 

"Women accounted for a measly 1.9% of directors who created the top 100 grossing films of 2014, a study by USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism found. And that figure gets even more disappointing when you look at top films from 2007 to 2014 (excluding 2011) and consider race."

"I have experienced sexism in that I have been directed by male directors 17 times and only twice by women. Of the producers I've worked with 13 have been male and only one has been a woman. But I am lucky: I have always insisted on being treated equally and have generally won that equality. Most of the problems I have encountered have been in the media, where I have been treated so incredibly differently from my male co-stars. I think my work with the UN has probably made me even more aware of the problems. I went out for a work dinner recently. It was 7 men … and me." Emma Watson talks about her career and sexism

"Watson also told hooks she's taking a year off from acting to focus on personal development, including reading a book a week. " ‪

A woman talks about beauty: "Beauty isn't a rent that I pay for occupying the space labelled female"

Tweet: "It's not my responsibility to be beautiful, I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me."

"If you're a lazy girl, there's one thing you should know about granny panties. When it comes to our underwear drawer, there are many options we can tinker around with: You've got your string bikinis, your thongs, your boy shorts, and your high waist options. But if you're a lazy human like me, chances are you're going to want to opt for the comfiest option available: Your ginormous granny panties." I'm not sure how wearing underwear you like makes you lazy.

“Female feminists never shave their legs or armpits.”

"In 2013, Nayara Justino was fairly voted as the Globeleza Carnival Queen by the public. Unfortunately, under inexplicable circumstances, she was stripped of the crown and a new queen with a lighter skin complexion was nominated by Globo.

Dethroning Justino and replacing her with a woman with a lighter skin tone had an overt hint of racism, leaving many with questions."

"The winner of the Miss Transgender UK pageant was stripped of her crown for not being “full-time” transgender, the organiser has claimed."

Tweet: "Dr Luke literally created the party/drunken girl image for kesha so that when this all came out she wouldn't be taken seriously."

"She looks like someone who really starves for attention. Yes, I am judging her by her looks, why? Because if someone threatens you on the net, turn your computer off. It really is THAT simple." A man comments on a Zoe Quinn story.

“It’s exhausting, and the whole point of this is to try to reclaim my humanity and stop having to be a ‘good victim’ for the court system,” Quinn said. “So I decided to be an absolutely terrible victim by speaking up” about the legal process.

"“I had every advantage,” said Wu. “I spoke to people in Congress, there were hundreds of articles, there was a ‘Law & Order’ episode based on our case — I don’t know what other incentive they could have to investigate. Even if you do everything right, the police will not help you.”" 

"Anita Sarkeesian, a longtime feminist game critic and friend of Quinn’s, went into hiding after Gamergate began passing around her full name and address. Brianna Wu, the 38-year-old co-founder of the game studio Giant Spacekat, who mocked the growing outrage on Twitter, received more than 200 death threats."

"“If I ever see you are doing a pannel [sic] at an event I’m going to, I will literally kill you,” one person messaged Quinn on Tumblr, according to court documents. Wrote another: “I’m not going to stop spreading your disgusting nudes around and making sure your life is a living hell until you either kill yourself or I rape you to death.”"

"According to a review by Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and the author of the book “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace,” only 10 cyberstalking cases were filed in federal courts between 2010 and 2013, despite statistics suggesting that millions of people had been stalked or harassed online during that time. In June, Rep. Katherine M. Clark (D-Mass.) introduced legislation that would force the Justice Department and FBI to devote more resources to cyberharassment, because — as she said, on the House floor — “we are failing these women.”" ‪

“Is there any way to back out?” Quinn emailed assistant District Attorney Mary Nguyen on Jan. 15. “He did another post yesterday and now stuff like this is popping up. . . . ”

She attached a screenshot from the Reddit topic thread “GGFreeForAll”: “If Eron goes to jail,” the post reads, “I will hunt Zoe Quinn down and rape her.”"

"Since August 2014, when her ex-boyfriend, Eron Gjoni, posted a 9,000-word screed about her online, Quinn and her family had been deluged by threats so severe that Quinn fled her home in Boston, afraid for her life. Gjoni’s online “hate mob,” as Quinn described it to a municipal judge that September, had unearthed her address and old nude photos, hacked her website, promised to kill and rape her, and placed multiple threatening calls to her father’s home in upstate New York — all of which Quinn had meticulously documented and organized in evidentiary zip-drive folders."

A woman who wrote a piece of being afraid of men follows it up with thanking the internet for not harassing her about it. "I’m as surprised as anyone that I have not yet seen any of the vitriolic hate that women on the Internet seem to usually face when they talk about harassment and gender." ‪

A man makes a comment on a friendzoning article: "what about the quiet guys who have real relationship goals in mind?
what about the guys who want to be there for the woman he likes when she needs support? what about the guy who has spent years as a “friend” for a girl when her “man” of choice is a six pack’d tatoos from cock to ears douchebag who couldn’t hold a job at fast food places for more than a month at a time?
what about the guy who has a financial future but is rejected because he’s overweight?
what about the guy who is so alone that death is increasingly becoming a good idea because nobody wants him for reasons he can’t figure out?
what about the guy who gets rejected because he actually shows human emotion and cares about the woman he likes?
what about the guy whos been rejected when he genuinely loved the girl since childhood?

what about the men in the world who deserves to know what true love and affection feels like for the first time in their lives?"

A survivor writes: "I was stalked by an extremely jealous ex-boyfriend (why we broke up) whow would call me up whenever I went out of town wanting to know where I’d been. He would tell me what time I left and what time I returned. After a teen girl and a divorced were bother killed by exes within a week, I came home after visiting my family for the weekend and waited for him to call. I told him, “Since you’re stalking me, there’s something you need to know. If you continue to stalk me, I am going to buy a gun and kill you.” He hasn’t called since. I was working for a newspaper as a reporter and wrote a series of article about domestic violence which featured the account of a nurse who was stabbed in the back by her ex and only lived because she knew what to do and another woman who was being stalked and harassed by her ex. He asked to tell his side of the story to my male editor. "

"There are so many violent friend-zoned men out there that there’s a Tumblr blog called Women Who Refuse dedicated to women who were harassed, beaten or killed after refusing a man’s advances. The blog has hundreds of entries. One guy killed a girl’s puppy by throwing it out her third-story window after she refused to sleep with him." 

"Sixteen-year-old Maren Sanchez was stabbed to death in April of 2015 by a classmate for saying no when he asked her to prom."

"Last November, 27-year-old Mary Spears was shot dead in Detroit.

Why? For not giving a man her phone number, while at a funeral for one of her late family members."

“Why is she dating that asshole when I’m a perfect gentleman? When he hurts her she’ll be sorry, and maybe she’ll finally appreciate how nice I am to her.”

“Why wouldn’t you want to date me? I’m a nice guy.”

"And she friend-zoned me.

I got pissed, stopped talking to her, and told all of my friends how cold she was and how she would be lucky to be with a nice guy like me.

Someone who genuinely cared about her feelings."

Tweet: "The fact that Chris Brown still has a thriving music career but Kesha won't be able to record speaks volumes about our society."

White background, black text: "Ever notice how when justifying a child's behaviour no one ever says stuff like 'girls will be girls' or 'she's just a girl', but the list of things a 'young lady' can't do is almost endless? You learn from a young age that masculinity comes with freedom, femininity comes with restrictions."

"Lloyd Oliver, a Democratic candidate for district attorney in Harris County, Texas, has a problem with domestic violence: He thinks it's prosecuted too much.

Oliver told the Texas Observer Wednesday that domestic violence is "so, so overrated." If elected, he indicated he'd redirect resources away from family violence to focus on other issues."

A woman makes a diagram of the pyramid of Sexual Violence. At the top is Murder. -> Rape, Sexual Assault, Physical & Emotional Abuse -> Harassment and Threats & Verbal Abuse -> Traditional Roles, Glass Ceilings, Rigid Gender-Based Stereotypes -> Sexist/Homophobic/Transphobic Jokes, Problematic Language & Objectification.

A joke is not just a joke. It's abuse.