I commented on one of those. Something to the effect of "Oh great, a new way to let your impressionable daughter know she's a piece of property! She "belongs" to her father until he decides to let someone pork her? Great way to let a young woman know her worth!"
It's nearly impossible to explain the concept to some men that there is no point at all in reporting in most instances. Why? So I could be victimized again? Women are fully aware that if they did ANYTHING that could place the blame on them—they were willingly on a date, they invited the guy into their house, they…
Only 3% are ever convicted because over 50% of victims don't ever report. They don't report because they worry asshole people like the MRA's mentioned will put them through hell if they do. 3% is not an exaggeration, but actually pretty generous - I always heard it was closer to 1%.
"97% means that cops and justice system aren't working at all."
I was stalked when I was younger (and hot) and it was terrifying. This isn't one of those articles about people that think that are being treated badly because they are pretty (a la Samantha Brick). This is about someone having their privacy terribly invaded by strangers and having no control over it. I thought it…
Youve clearly never given a guy a fake phone number only to have him call it right in front of you, realize its not yours, and get angry/ aggressive. There is a reason we women do the things we do. It's to avoid shit like getting stalked, murdered, etc.
Ah I see. Then yes, absolutely. And besides that, even if I were single and the whole deal were totally on the up-and-up, I just...wouldn't want everyone to know that I had had a one-night-whatever while I was traveling. I would definitely hide.
Lindy West feels so bad for Katie, she put her picture, name, and location on Jezebel for all the other weirdos.
So terribly, terribly bad for Katie.
Sorry, looks like my copy+paste from Dictionary got fucked up in the Kinja machine.
Yes. This. So basically she got more publicity and a significantly larger group of people bidding on her auction because they were under the assumption it was all going to the Philippines, but instead, she kept 90% of the PROFIT for herself. And then she condescendingly tells all the plebs how ebay and paypal…
I call her Polly Prostitute, partly due to her fashion choices which includes boots, heels, and minis that barely cover her ass. Before you get mad at me for "slut-shaming," this is a doll marketed to little girls.
"I call her Polly Prostitute, partly due to her fashion choices which includes boots, heels, and minis that barely cover her ass."
I call her Polly Prostitute, partly due to her fashion choices which includes boots, heels, and minis that barely cover her ass. Before you get mad at me for "slut-shaming," this is a doll marketed to little girls.
While I definitely agree with her opinion that these items are socializing young girls into traditional ideas of femininity and that it teaches young girls to be preoccupied with their bodies and physical appearance, referring to Polly Pocket as Polly Prostitute is offensive and shaming women who are prostituted.…
Wow, so you put scare quotes around the phrase slut-shaming, having just used the p-slur. You don't get to shame real sex workers to aid the narrative of your unoriginal just-in-time-for-Christmas article.
For a normal person who doesn't have 3 stylists, this could look annoying and unrealistic. But for anyone who has ever breastfed, multitasking while doing it is something that happens every day. I would read, catch up on phone calls, eat, and I don't remember what else (it was a long time ago!), but I do know I…
I like profanity as much as the next person, but I don't think using it here, especially the gendered insult (which I refuse to use as a noun offline, as well), is the best tactic for dealing with trans exclusionary radical feminists. Or men's rights activists. Or really any of the folks who might, with time, be…
Where's cis privilege for you as a cis woman? Well, you're automatically accepted as telling the truth about being a woman. You aren't barred from using women's restrooms. You don't have parents throwing you out of your house because you're a freak. There's more, but these all come down to one thing, which will be…
I can't really say I blame them for trying... for most of the trans women I know, having been assigned male is what has been at the root of most of the pain in their lives, and to have someone come and say they're privileged for having been that way is kind of a massive slap in the face. Especially because there's…