I wish that someone would point out to the flag humpers that the soldiers who died for our country died for our freedom, and until every person is free to play in a park with a bb gun or go on a candy run without being murdered, then those soldiers died in vain. Kneeling honors those soldiers because their deaths are…

I really want someone to poke holes in the “honour the troops” rebuttals to Kaepernick’s protest against police brutality by pointing out that all the troops aren’t white. I want Mary Bono, Meghan McCain, all of Fox News and the rest of the flag humpers explain why it’s okay to ignore police brutality/profiling…

I’ve been wanting to go to a boxing gym, I just want to hit something very hard, but I’ve been worrying that it would be unhelpful...channelling my rage at the universe into physical violence.

Get a new therapist. These things happen to most women, and they’ve happened to you. Feelings are real, and those are your feelings. Getting you to focus on “healthy men” doesn’t do anything to assuage the rage you feel.

oh my god yes. I learned the first month I took transit by myself, aged 11, to pick an adult woman to sit next to and under no circumstance take a window seat. Miraculously so much of that stopped around the time I stopped being asked for ID.

Yeah. I am not a therapist, but I don’t know any women without those experiences. We may not all be assaulted, but we have all be catcalled, called a fat whore because we refused a man’s advances, had some unqualified, barely out of school asshole at work think he had more authority than us or expect us to make…

In my small friend circle of women, I’m the one who has had the fewest issues with men. I’ve been raped once (ex-bf) and been catcalled a time or two. I’ve never met any woman who never had ANY bad experiences with men but I have met women who seem to have nothing but bad experiences with them. 

First of all, your therapist is wrong. Every woman experiences misogyny in one or several of its many forms. That’s reality and nothing to sugarcoat or single you out for. Your experience is in no way exceptional.

She should maybe try to stick to the validating your feelings part. Personally, I don’t really trust men anymore, and that’s based on the evidence. I mean Jesus Fucking Christ- do you know a single woman who has not been harassed, assaulted, or objectified by men? What is she even talking about?

I think there are some women who, through luck and personality, escape the terribly misogynistic world we live in relatively unscathed.

I guess I don’t understand how a public figure (celebrity, I assume?) or fictional character might serve as an automatic measure of a “healthy man.”

Actually I myself am also a therapist.

How can that be possibly helpful to the original poster?

What the hell, female therapist? “Huh, actually those things rarely happen to women. You must be a freak. Try to look at the bright side!" 

so I think there are some women who, through luck and personality, escape the terribly misogynistic world we live in relatively unscathed.

You never got harassed or objectified? Catcalled by adult men when you were well underage? Had a man follow you down the street after dark clearly knowing he’s making you nervous? It’s hard for me to imagine a woman not having experienced this stuff, at least a little. (To be clear I consider myself lucky—touch…

Thank you for saying this. I’ve never met a woman that doesn’t have at least one story. Not assault necessarily but objectification for sure. If my therapist said that to me I’d find it depressing. And wonder why me? Did I do something wrong, what was I broadcasting?

I told my female therapist about my experiences being harassed, assaulted and objectified, and she told me these things do not happen to all women

Please. I’m from a city where a statue of the Duke of Wellington has had a traffic cone accessory for the past thirty-five years. Googly-eyes is nothing...

found a gif of her and donald.