I don’t know, I’m a petite woman and was a tiny girl. I can’t rely on physical strength. If I got into a fight with a guy, hitting him in the balls would be my first thought because it’s a great equalizer. I’m one big soft spot from head to toe but that’s the one weak point men have.

Have you noticed that catcalling and street harassment are often framed as an absolutely universal experience for all women? “If you’re alive and female this is the constant background static of your life”. I’ve had guys on the street yell at me twice, once was when I was a teenager and they were asking my friends…

No, she wasn’t one of the guys. Tom wasn’t grabbing the other guys’ asses, only hers. Letting him do it and them laugh about it was the price of admission for being the girl they tolerated in their group.

There was some bad hair-band video in which a woman kicks some dude in the balls after he does something bad to her—I remember laughing at it as a kid and my super-feminist mom telling me that balls-kicking was akin to rape. Rape! I will never forget how shocked I was even as a child to hear my mother say that.

Whenever I read a frothy article that’s all ‘Here are the top ten things in women’s fashion that men hate’, I just want to do everything on the list as a reminder that I do not exist for anybody’s boner. It’s that level of pettiness that led to me cutting off all of my hair after a boyfriend told me he didn’t want me…

You just don’t do that to a guy. Ever.

Great piece. And may I recommend getting fat? I am completely invisible now. But nothing makes men angrier than a fat feminist who loves herself. Example number one - Lindy West. She rocks.

This is so well written in part because you embrace the complication of being a woman — sometimes loving those people who oppress you without even trying, really — all the while being furious.

This was amazing. Thank you for writing!

You’ve accurately described the day to day humiliation of living inside a woman’s body. The good men are still trying to force us to believe we’ll be ok, which feels like an even greater assault than those actively assaulting us.

I hear the echoes of my own youth, and your anger at the male “friends” who were okay with you being sexually assaulted as long as no one of the guys was affected (since they were the ones that mattered). You are a strong and powerful woman, and your words count. You are a leader and influencer. Be secure in your…

sorry for being good at my job

I’ve been asking myself what this reminds me of, and I realized it’s like an ANTM challenge in the later cycles when Tyra was clearly out of new ideas.

I’m not on trial here

What about creating an all-Jezebel version of the calendar? It would be the greatest thing ever.

There’s women in this calendar?

Hard pass.

I am 100% certain that he assumed their would be a big door with a sign on it saying, “Top Secret Dungeon!!!”.

This story just proves how stupid hatred can make you. This man honestly believed that a random pizza shop was a front for a child sex ring on the behalf of Hillary Clinton. A story that is fucking ridiculous to anyone with a half a brain, but because it involves Clinton this Klan wannabe was ready to go on a crusade.…