Periods are “disgusting,” pregnancy is “beautiful,” breastfeeding is “inappropriate,” menopause is “crazy.” Almost like women’s bodies are only acceptable when serving someone else.
I just heard a guy on a podcast ask if tampons break the hymen and
"doesn't that take the virginity away".
And ladies and gentlemen, this is again why men shouldn't be able to dictate women's bodies.
The probability of a person being bitten by a venomous snake is 1 in 70,000.
The probability of a woman being assaulted by a man is 1 in 3.
nnd for some reason, the fear of snakes is considered entirely justified. Whereas women’s fear of male violence is seen as exaggerated.
We need feminism because when I was in 3rd grade a boy threw sand in my eyes on the playground and the school nurse told me he had a crush on me. He never got in trouble. Later that year an older boy in the neighborhood pulled me into his dad’s car ,nd wouldn’t let me out until I kissed him. In 5th grade at the skating rink, a man over 50 asked my friend Katie to sit on his lap after watching us skate for several hours...
When I was 13 a line cook in his 30s demanded I give him my phone number. He got MORE persistent after my aunt told him I was only 13 and he watched me from the kitchen as I ate pancakes. Women have been objectified nd expected to deal with men’s behavior since childhood with no ramifications towards our offenders. Every woman has stories for sure ,similar to mine and likely worse.
If abortion becomes illegal, women and girls are just gonna start throwing themselves down the stairs again and shoving coat hangers in their body again you fucking idiots. You can't get rid of abortion. You are only getting rid of safe, medically-supervised ones.
why do "balls" imply toughness and "pussy" imply weakness when the slightest flick to the nuts sends a guy to his knees, yet a vagina can push out an entire being.?????
The problem gentlemen is you think "rapist" means scary man in a hoodie lurking in an alleyway at 3am. Of course you'd block that guy.
But it's the boyfriend you really loved who was angry that you hadn't wanted sex for two days and pinned you for the bed and then felt really bad about it.
It's the really sweet guy backstage who you loved working with for the whole production who knew you only wanted to be friends and then got you drunk at the after party and raped you in a dressing room.
It's the husband who whined and pleaded for sex long after you've said no for hours and refused to take no for an answer until you gave in every night for four years until you realised what it was.
It's the childhood friend who knows your parents and is your brother's best mate who suddenly attacked you when you were 17 and then told you he'd be thrown out of Oxford if you said anything.
It's the kind colleague who offered to drive you home from that conference when there was a train strike and then forced his hands into your pants in a lay-by and then threatened to leave you there at 3am if you didn't stop being a cockteasing bitch.
We're not dumb. We see the constant attempts to make anything short of stranger with a knife made up, regret, our fault really, a matter of the woman not being clear.
We know why you keep trying to make this 'not rape'. Because if coercion, marital rape, pressure, manipulation and exploitation count, then the comforting fantasy that rape is only ever a stranger with a knife falls apart.