You know what most guys/adults/females in my area think of things like hollaback? Feminist tiddlywinks.

For me, personally, it isn't understandable at all why people skip the minor and focus on the major, but because (1) I'm female and (2) my school of thought is that minor leads to major.

Because 'olive' is half of 'juice.'

Socio-economic status. Sorry about the late reply. And good points too!

That part got to me, too. I'd love to know the reasoning behind that sentence.

Femininity is a construct, though, so I still don't agree with it being the tinder. Or.. at the least.. being the only tinder in this analogy especially being that the "rules" of what constituted femininity have changed over time. I also still argue that women and make-up majority is still a modern thing. (Modern…

There's a reason I used the word roundabout and not simply victim blame. The system isn't creating the rapist. The person within the system is the sole cause of that, while the system just gives easier access to opportunity and fewer consequences. Had the argument been presented in such a way that the opinion of the…

I want to hug you so hard.

I really like the roundabout victim blame you've got going on there.

Depends on who you ask or mileage may vary. I got plenty of giggles out of it as equally as I rolled my eyes. Basically, I'll be bummed if it's canceled because I love my half…

I can most certainly argue that, in some instances, it is NOT a choice. I'll offer a few circumstances, some extreme and rare.:

And you need tinder to make fire that makes smoke.. thus, the materials/environment that she's talking about. You can also throw in that the reasons for make-up use come before make-up that come before mirrors. (I hope all that makes sense somehow.) Essentially, I still think it's a chicken/egg scenario, but I…

I can add to that context for you. When I'm walking to my car alone, most often at night but sometimes during the day, I have 911 cued up on my phone. My keys are in my hand in such a way so that I can press the car alarm. Whether or not I'm listening to music, I have one headphone in one ear - to look as…

One doesn't have to imagine. One just has to ask, observe, or realize that everything you read in that article does indeed happen to women across all spectrums.

I'm trying not to sound snarky, but it's going to come across as that anyway. I'm curious as to how the last two paragraphs don't completely invalidate your first?

The type of porn (i.e. the type of job) a woman chooses to engage in has no relation to why a man "feels" it's okay to speak to/treat women the way that he does. That is a fault completely born of his choice - not hers.

My cat already thought I was a special snowflake, but now he just keeps coming over and patting me with his paw because of my honking laughter.

It had never occurred to me that a victim would have to pay for her own rape kit or that it's even something that insurance would have in their language to cover. I'm not surprised at all, but now I'm really really sad.

I just started a new job where there is a stated rule that you must walk out to your car in pairs, and I've caught a lot of eye-rolling and laughter whenever we've gone over that. I've made a point of telling the younger girls (and anyone I catch giggling) about the restaurant that I worked in years ago that had a man…

My GOD this is me, but I've never been able to state it so eloquently. I vote this to be made into little postcards to hand out when speech is just too damn hard in the face of idiots.