View at Medium.com View at Medium.com Maybe when you were six, skipping rope, a stranger showed you a part of himself you should never have seen. Maybe when you were eleven, one of the uncles who sat around your dinner table touched you in places you didn’t even know you had. Maybe when you were…
Tag: sexual assault
The Absence of “No” is Not Enough
For the last week I’ve been watching the #MeToo movement rise and fall in the media. Women are sharing, in great detail, personal experiences in order to highlight just how pervasive the problem of sexual harassment and assault really is. What I’m also noticing is that men, on the whole, have been largely silent. Now,…
A Rock and a Hard Place
Recently a writer tweeted a comment in reaction to a female politician’s actions. Women on Twitter correctly pointed out that in their experiences, as actual women, that particular advice 1. Wrongly shifts the burden onto women 2. Doesn’t do fuck all 3. Often has the opposite effect 4. Could be downright dangerous Instead of actively…
Dear Matt Walsh, Your Opinion On the Women’s March is Worthless
Dear Matt Walsh and others, Hear me loud, and hear me clear. When a woman, a group of women, several million women say “My experience as a woman is this” you don’t get to say with any merit “No, it’s not.” It really is that simple. You are not a woman. You have never lived…
Wine and Cheese (Doodles) 