FEM

Rape culture is our culture; but we can change it.

[FEM @femsaintjohn]

@TIME has announced the Silence Breakers as the Person of the Year for 2017
What do you think??
https://t.co/ezL8OjxqKd

[FEM @femsaintjohn]

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[FEM @femsaintjohn]

"Young women told me about the same men who harassed me years ago. And all I did was participate in the whisper network... But you have to address it head on and as a group. It's hard to call 147 women liars. We can't all be crazy. We can't all be sluts."

[FEM @femsaintjohn]

"The harassment began so early, and it was so accepted in the industry. When I finally spoke out publicly, I wondered why I hadn't sooner. I was afraid that I didn't have the strength to make it stope. I don't feel that fear anymore."

[FEM @femsaintjohn]

“I think we’re all part of this movement. On Twitter, there aren’t any country borders, because it’s such a powerful thing. There are millions of women who have experienced harassment and assault in every country.”

[FEM @femsaintjohn]

“If they couldn’t stop us from talking, they were going to stop everybody from listening. I think working together was powerful. It was hard to silence all of us.”

[FEM @femsaintjohn]

“One time when I was cleaning, a guest asked me if I knew how to massage. The way he was looking at me wasn’t friendly. It’s crazy that people think that if they pay for the room, they are paying for sexual service.”

[FEM @femsaintjohn]

"I wanted it to stop... For so long, I went around harbouring this ridiculous belief that because I was a nonwhite woman in my 20s that somehow it was expected that I would have to be treated this way. And now I see that that is so silly. I am a person with dignity."

[FEM @femsaintjohn]

"After I sent that email, I burst into tears and felt sick to my stomach and was shaking. I was nobody. I'm just a person from a small town in Texas. I have no money, no power, no social standing. I felt extremely vulnerable and scared..."

[FEM @femsaintjohn]

"I was put in a sausage dress. The hair got blonder and the cleavage got deeper and the heels higher. Fox has created a sort of Snapchat filter: any woman, even women with advanced degrees, would be turned into what looked like an office sex toy."

[FEM @femsaintjohn]

"I experienced a little bit of victim blaming, victim shaming - people digging into my Instagram and pulling up sexy photos, as if that discredited me from speaking out against sexual violence. And gay men are often highly sexualized in the media..."

[FEM @femsaintjohn]

"Someone who is in the limelight is able to speak out more easily than people who are poor. The reality of being a woman is the same - the difference is the risk each woman must take."