MINOR SPOILAGE AHEAD: I am convinced that my favourite horror film, Rosemary's Baby, is about discounting female experiences. Rosemary repeatedly says her body feels weird and is talked out of it by those around her. Her emotions and physical pain are distrusted because she is a woman, and a pregnant one at that. It's…

Oh my god, this. I was telling my father two weeks ago of how sick I am of a guy I know He keeps calling me "whore" and "slut" semi-jokingly. (I previously had very politely turned down his offer for a date, and clearly he is not handling it gracefully.) I have asked this person to stop, and gone to insane lengths…

My therapist told me that "stop crying" is one of the most cruel and borderline abusive* ways to handle a person who is upset, exactly for that reason. Feelings are always true no matter what and to suppress or interrupt them is very harmful. You can be upset for a stupid reason, but you're still upset and that's just…

Men lie the most; women tell the biggest lies… A man's lie is like, 'I was at Tony's house.' A woman's lie is like, 'It's your baby.'

I also hate how when I, a woman, am correct, men will act like they are somehow indulging me by acknowledging that I am correct.

That did not sound bad to me when I was growing up. At a very early age I wanted to be a nun because I realized how hard my mom had being a working mother and I just thought there is no way I have all that energy in me. Then I started feeling sexual attraction towards men and dismissed the idea but still thought that…

because I did not understand it ... and figured it was wrong.

You realize virtually none of us would have husbands or boyfriends, right?

Lawyer here - male partner I work for lost a case once for this reason. I write a brief, go to a conference, and come back a week later to discuss the strategy for the upcoming oral argument with him and our client (in-house counsel -female). I suggest reiterating a point from the brief that relies on a basic…

Yeah. I've seen this at work. Humiliated my old boss for doing it as well. Years and years ago, I worked for a stone-age bastard who basically believed that every woman in the office should wear a mini-skirt and a clingy blouse and that they had zero contribution to make in relation to the company. One of my…

I worked at a Fortune 1000 company brought in to turn a specific department around . And temporarily it did work, but because the company wasn't training the new hires properly and quick to fire people , I had to show them with cold hard math how if the turnover rate is 60-70% then we couldn't increase the sales…

It can even happen in female dominated workplaces. Last summer I was helping set up a new Micheal's store. It's a sweet gig, the setup, you get a full workweek for as long as it's going on and it's not very mentally taxing while being a decent workout. Since it involves physical labor, we had quite a few men show up…

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…

It's to the fucking point where even my goddamn tastes aren't trusted.

I've only just recently realized how much I've internalized the idea that my feelings are Not To Be Trusted. The amount of time I spend feeling guilty for not having the "correct" emotions is just unimaginable. It's socialized into women from early childhood. I heard it from my otherwise nurturing parents - "Stop…

I've mostly experienced this in work settings. The most frustrating part is if you point it out - that a woman had that idea first, for example - you soon gain the reputation of not being a team player, even when the team is dysfunctional. I once got a lecture about how I should interrupt less, while I could never…

About the only time I see this phenomenon being discussed in popular culture-albeit obliquely— is in horror movies, one of the biggest arbiters of our fears in modern times.

By not realizing that they automatically doubt the person, and thus come up with ways to rationalize the situation in a way that's more psychologically comfortable to them.

If your husband or boyfriend blithely dismisses your opinions, he shouldn't be your husband. He should be your ex husband or ex boyfriend.

There's something that I see a lot coming from men re: statements women make, especially about gender related issues, and it needs to be added to the Book of Fallacies if it hasn't already - the DOS, or Demand of Service. When someone says "citation needed!" or treats you like human google regarding something that…