Men are really really bad at even telling if we’re wearing makeup, unless it’s like bright-blue-eyeshadow-red-lips. I’ve also been complimented on my “natural beauty” and I’m like, dude, I’m wearing makeup right now. Did you really think my eyelids were just naturally a darker beige than my skin?

I’ve also found that men who say “I don’t like women who wear a lot of makeup” are really talking about heavy eyeliner and false lashes. Most of them are too stupid to realize that that “natural, low-maintenance” look they covet is actually pretty heavily made up as well.

And women and girls are taught that it’s sexy and that’s what men like and having men desire you is #1 priority so if what men desire is your abuse then they are taught to be active participants in their own abuse. It’s sick. 

A white guy with a fetish for young asian women.

I am here for all these sentiments in all their fine forms. When I want your attention, there won’t be any question about it.

Yes, exactly. It’s heartbreaking to hear from people who think any attention is better than no attention. I think we can demand more for ourselves and from each other. Respectful attention for everyone!

Nothing empowered me more after having a kid than suddenly not caring what people (sure men, but also women-looking-as-men) thought of my body. It’s not for them. It’s for me.

I didn’t hold a party when I became invisible to men, but I should have.

Yes. One of the most liberating things about getting older (I am 37) is that I’m not constantly being harassed by creeps who think my looks make me an object for their use and my youth makes me an easy target. Not only are men like him ageist but they are also scared little punks because they are afraid of women their…

Frankly, nothing’s going to help unless performers are paid in advance with money electronically transferred into a secure account BEFORE any filming takes place.

I talk to my male from ends about this. They all deny watching porn where the woman seems uncomfortable and I deeply believe they are lying. 

I’m pretty uncomfortable with the concept of a podcast or a show seeking a “cause of death” for suicide. People are complex and emotional. I understand how it would be a comfort to the bereaved to have something external to blame, I just don’t think it’s possible to boil it down to anything so simple as that. On top…

Not feasible that changing catheters, feeding, and moving a pregnant woman in order to bathe and maintain a minimal degree of hygiene and her condition went unnoticed. Several people are culpable. Also, a “healthy” baby does not result from an unconscious mother. Hope this child get’s therapy before they are ready to…

It’s not just the CEO who has some ‘splainin to do;if people were her caregivers on a daily basis,shouldn’t they have noticed if she wasn’t getting her period and/or was pregnant over the course of nearly nine months? Did she not have family members that came to see her at some point during the entire time she was…

This was an amazing read. Thank you so much for sharing!

OMG! We had the same physical therapist! I met her when she was just moving to Jersey. She saved my life and my marriage. This is honestly in my opinion the most important topic that women don’t know about. You are doing a service. I try to share about this with all my female friends, its actually really common and…

This is why I can never run for office. I was in the video program so there are at least a dozen videos of me doing really stupid shit because we all helped each other out for final projects. 

I can't imagine being someone who gives two shits that this exists. This need on the right to make her look bad is simply pathetic.

This was really hard to read as someone who’s been a daily pot smoker for the past 10 years. The line that really got me: “I made peace with the notion that I wasn’t possibly going to absorb the finer details of whatever I was experiencing. So why even try?” I’ve lost so many relationships because I just couldn’t…

I don’t know how people make the cool pull quotes on here