I really cannot fathom how guys like this think relationships work. Do they honestly think you’re chained to your spouse and if not, you’ve snapped your tether and run into the underbrush searching for the nearest testosterone provider? If some woman, God forbid, actually marries them at some point, how are they…

I absolutely refuse to use the “I’m taken” line, because it enrages me so much. You WILL accept my disinterest, whether you like it or not. (And yes, I know that may mean it’s a hill I die on...but I absolutely refuse to be viewed as anyone’s property or have my worth defined by my status as someone else’s property)

“Why can’t women just be direct if they don’t wanna go out with someone? Always playing hard to get or leading men on!” Um, it’s because when we say no you kill us. And if it’s not that extreme, you may cause some other physical harm to us. Or shout at us. Or make us feel generally unsafe for having said no. And the…

That’s when you have to suggest the devil’s threesome. If that doesn’t get rid of them, nothing will.

Man, Pittsburgh never makes it onto Jez for anything good.

Jen Kirkman posted about this on her Instagram (her IG account is GREAT btw, if you are not following her you should be) and was like “see this is the kind of shit we have to put up with” and of course there was a dude who knew we weren’t getting “the whole story.” I guess to him if she was a bitch to him at some…

I get that you care and you want to be an ally but don’t ask the women in this space to make you feel better about being a man; use your voice to join them in condemning this man’s violence without involving your own ego. A woman is dead. Your post, although well-intentioned, is a derail.

I just want to remind everyone that even if you have not experienced violence or harassment due to rejecting unwanted advances you absolutely know someone who has, this is as horrifying as it is common.