At work right now. No bra. Wudup. #smallboobiesftw

Preach it, sister. I've thought and felt everything you've said many times. It doesn't matter if you're from Papua New Guinea or Sweden... the basic underlying fear, helplessness, frustration, resentment and anger that women live with is all the same.

I feel like this is one of the most important things I've ever read, now more than ever. It talks about that lack of gentle platonic touch in North American men's lives if they don't have a romantic partner and how destructively isolating that can be. So, so important.

He ran her over afterwards... that... that is just... I have no words. It's a hate crime. It's hatred. Women have very little idea how much men hate them as the saying goes... but I feel like it's getting more and more apparent everyday. :_(

Wow, that must have been crushing. This is what women mean when we say it's a man's world. Men control the government, the media, (and everything else, really) they get to decide what is normal and dismiss what they think is not... especially when it comes to women. It's like the entire world is gas lighting…

Yep that's how I felt too. It's just a testament to how wide spread aggression, intimidation, sexual harassment and abuse towards women really is. It's like we (women) all responded as one, we each felt this attack on a deep level. Meanwhile, the men around us are all like "Wow, what a psycho. Hey, is Game of Thrones…

We are told, repeatedly, to ignore it. It's not real. It's just "crazy", lonely guys who we should feel sorry for. But as a mental health activist, I have no time for the language of emotional distress being used to excuse an atrocity, and as a compassionate person I am sick of being told to empathize with the…

I feel exactly the same... the utter despair that even after this, even after the kid explicitly, lengthily stated his misogynistic intentions for his killing spree (that he so clearly absorbed from the world around him)... the world is still like "Now calm down ladies, this has nothing to do with you. It was…

He says the expulsion has made it impossible for him to start his job at a Wall Street firm, which was offered upon assumption he would graduate from the college.

I will copy and paste my answer to another commenter...

How very correct you are about that, despite missing the point completely. Thanks for weighing in.

Yes, women as individuals can be "symbols" of something... But that's not what I said. I said women as a group cannot. People seem to be getting hung up on whether individual women CAN be symbols.. They can. But I'm talking whether they should be to the exclusion of their humanity, and in the case of that symbolism…

True, everyone does represent something... but they are all unique expressions of what that autonomous individual chooses to represent at any given time, not what others demand she symbolize. Women as a group cannot be a symbol of anything because we are each varied, flawed, ever changing human beings.

Iranian woman, Swedish woman, American woman, Indian woman, Canadian woman, Chinese woman, ANY woman are not symbols of anything... They are human beings. Full stop. Thanks.

My mom was going to name me Copper (I'm a redhead...), Charlotte, or Georgia. She wanted to name my brother Zebulan (pronounced Zebewlawn) but was shouted down by EVERYBODY. Thank goodness.

Person 1: "I am totally fine with gay people, I'm not a homophobe or anything... I just don't want to see that! Have some restraint!"

That is both shocking and believable in equal matters.

I refer to my mom's boyfriend as her "partner" because the former term seems soooo frivolous and high school-esque... they've been together for years, common law... and 50 years old. I didn't find out until later that some people who didn't know my mom thought that I meant she was a lesbian!