Bravo girl ! This is so well thought out and it’s one of the best things I’ve read this year. (Times like this I really admire writers. I’ve never been talented in that way and I’m a ravenous reader. I get nervous if I don’t have a book.). Anyway, I don’t even care if my comment is buried. I just want you to know that…

“It was never funny” is what I’m going to start saying to everyone when they ask why I’m not laughing.

I told my dad the story about you punching a guy in the balls for grabbing your butt. He said you were justified and those boys were wrong. “You don’t touch a girl’s butt without permission.”

The problem is going to be it takes longer than 4 years to screw/unscrew the country. So as the Obama stuff winds down, we’ll still see things improve for a while. Then, after he’s re-elected because “Wow, see how much better things are after Trump” his policies will start a seemingly slow decline of the American…

I’m sure they tip handsomely.

Yes! This is exactly how I feel. I am done accomodating people’s bullshit remarks and attitudes. This goes for a range of issues, of which sexism is only one, which were magnified by the recent election. I have done my share of playing nice and not calling out people who say hurtful things to avoid being labelled…

I’ll bet they were fun over Christmas. Their family must really miss them when they’re not there.

This! I was recently stuck behind someone at a security gate who had a full-on meltdown because they wanted her to follow the same procedures that literally everyone else follows. She was just utterly shocked to find out that, no, you cannot wear your coat and jewelry and shoes through the full body scanner.

My husband once pissed me off before a flight. I stared out the window in silence for three hours, out the bus window for one hour and then through a 30 minute information session at the hotel, before finally continuing our fight once ensconced in our room. These people need to be sentenced to a rage repression…

People who regularly fly Delta: why?

I’m in my mid-40s and those restrictions have been in place as long as I can remember.

You know how reverse racism isn’t a real thing? This is pretty much the same deal — childless women who eschew marriage and makeup are not in a position to do you harm as you pursue your just-coincidentally-patriarchy-approved path. So instead of inflicting us with your neediness by misinterpreting passages that posit…

There’s always that one douche who’s just shocked - shocked! that he can’t get up and start digging in the overhead bins while the plane is 5 feet from the ground and the seatbelt sign is still on, and always one other person who’s surprised to learn they can’t blithely wander into the bathroom under the same…

As I read this on the metro home, my heart pounding as I felt validated by every word, I was leered at and lurched at by no less than two men during the ten minute commute.

This is the first thing that has really resonated with my feelings post-election. I had a conversation with my mom the other day (many parts of it shouting), and one thing she can’t get past is how angry I am. She doesn’t believe that power should be shared equally by all people, she doesn’t think that 💩 will…

They already think we’re ugly - in their very fear of us we’re ugly to them. In our demands to be seen as PERSONS, to be respected, to be treated fairly... It’s extremely ugly to them.

Thank you so much. This is amazing. As I read I am reminded of a boy who tormented me when I was in 6th grade by snapping my bra strap again and again. The taunts and laughter. How ashamed I felt that I needed a bra. How powerless I felt to stop it. That year I went from wearing soft pink sweaters and pretty skirts to…

If you want to really know how fucked in the head men really are, try being transgender. Trans men going stealth, or trans women who can’t safely present as female, privy to the unedited conversations of men, it’s fucking vomit inducing. Men do not see women as human beings. They see women as literal meat, a pair of…

Long time Jez reader, first time commenter. Even if this stays in the grays, Madeleine - THANK YOU for putting my thoughts into essay form. I have been feeling this exact, nearly indescribable rage cocktail since election night and it only swells larger each time Cheeto sharts into the public’s face.

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.