I was once sitting in the library at my old community college, doing some homework. There was a guy sitting a few tables over from me, diligently working on his own homework. I happened to look up, and he had paused in his work, kinda staring off into space. As I watched, he picked up his calculator and very…

Posted this last week but it was late and I'm in the greys so I guess no one ever saw it... will try again

The sexual assault part of this really gets to me. My cousin was sexually abused by our grandfather for years. She didn't realize exactly what was going on, only that it was painful and wrong, until she saw an episode of Oprah when she was eleven years old where they were talking about child molestation and rape. She…

Like, are you for real? You just discounted the experience of a woman ON AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES AND OPINIONS AND EMOTIONS OF WOMEN BEING DISMISSED. Seriously?

You could add sex work and trans issues to that list as well.

well, since george carlin said it i believe it

I had been seeing this guy for a few months. On our last date, I mentioned that my birthday was the next weekend. (Not in a big "I expect a surprise party AND a diamond ring way. Just as a FYI.) Dude immediately gets all excited and says that he HAS to take me out for my birthday. He starts working out the details,…

I can't edit, so I will add that she was duped by him into thinking that this was totally a cool thing with me.

I'm not sure if this counts because I wasn't technically cheated on, but it's a good one, so here it is anyways. First of all, in my defense, I was young and naive, and dating a real asshole. He wasn't even cute. Idk what I was thinking. SO. We dated for a few months, I think everything's going well, and one day I get…

One Thanksgiving, about a decade ago, my grandmother was really sick and I decided to spend all day with her at the nursing home. I cooked her a special meal; all of her favorites. My then-husband (who also happened to be an abusive ass) decided to spend the day at his family's house for their annual get together.…

I had dated a woman off and on for about 6 years after coming out in my mid 20's. She was my "first" and I had a particularly hard time letting her go. She had a fairly closed life to me and our dating consisted of the two of us (usually going nowhere) and lots of sex. After a while I'd get frustrated that we never…

My mom was trying to get back in shape after her 4th kid by walking around the neighborhood. She repeatedly saw the same woman walking at the same time as her and so they eventually started up a conversation and became walking buddies. They both talked about their husband and boyfriend, thinking nothing of them…

So I was living in Israel for a few years (I'm American) and fell in love with a soldier. He had an administrative job in the army so he came home every day. After about a year, he said he felt really guilty about "not doing his part" for the army. That he had a sudden urge to fight for his country and had volunteered…

this is the story of how I got my name - and how my mother discovered my father was cheating on her (all names have been changed to protect the innocent): when I was born the doctor asked my mother what she was going to name me and even though she already had a named picked out, she blurted out the name of the…

Found him peacefully sleeping in a bed being the little spoon to a woman I hated who, in her sleep, had a tight hold on his cock. And he had been wearing some of my clothes, now scattered on her floor.

My ex was an addict who cheated on me sexually many times throughout our 2 years together, but I think the most crushing was when I found out he'd been carrying out an entire romantic relationship with another woman at the same time as me. He was supposed to come over after work one night, and never showed up. Hours…

I received this text from my boyfriend at the time:

Not really, but whatever lets you sleep at night.

The comments on this board further prove how white feminists feel about African American women. Gloria attempts to give credit to black women and right on cue white women come out to refute her comments. Look, it is difficult to say, who exactly started the feminist movement. There are also different "waves" of the…

Every time I read Sojourner Truth's early 1850s speech "Ain't I a Woman?" I'm also reminded that she was making an argument for women's rights based on gender equality, not gender difference. White feminists for many decades continued to argue the party line that gender difference, specifically women's supposed unique…