Neat! I’m happy for her. As a person dealing with/ slowly recovering from severe agoraphobia, I know how hard it is to get treatment when you’re terrified of something. It doesn’t make logical sense but your brain is misfiring and telling you that you’re going to die if you do the thing you’re scared of.
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“From now on, I respectfully ask you to refer to me as Jen, Jennifer, Ms. Herold, or your opponent.”
“The gal that’s running against me is a 30-year-old, you know, mom, mother of two infants,” the 62-year-old Republican said during a radio interview. “And I don’t know if anybody mansexplained to her we’ve got to spend three nights a week in Columbus...”
Wow, dad sounds like a case. I would be glad to yell and throw things at him it will help either of you.
Omg, spitting image of my dad. He tries to tear me down for being more confident than him too. Worse sexist/mysogynist I ever met. Thinks it totally normal to have bought sex-because women are just merchandise of course- (and behind my mom’s back at that). Insults me daily over what a bad woman I am for leaving my…
We can’t win.
That’s the shit of it, though, isn’t it? Of COURSE we know that not all men are rapists and abusers and stalkers and psychopaths. Of course we know that. In fact, most men are not like that. However, rapists don’t wear big signs, and stalkers don’t glow purple. So men have to keep in mind that, when they cold-approach…
I bet they have a pickpocket monkey living in their crawspace. That seems the most logical explanation to me.
Man, Pittsburgh never makes it onto Jez for anything good.
Stories like this are what make me so mad when my father complains that “you can’t even compliment a woman now without her crying sexual harassment.”
Yeah, that part jumped at me too. We hear so many stories of cops who kill innocent unarmed people and don’t even get a slap on the wrist for it. But here, when the suspect was legitimately armed and dangerous and fleeing at top speed in a car and logically had to be stopped by force, the cops are punished? The fuq?
Ugh, yes, let’s talk about how it’s YOUR mistake. Jeez, women can never win!
My ex once called me after getting out of an elevator, he was upset that the woman inside of it had hugged the wall the entire time and had rushed out when it reached her floor. He couldn’t understand why, because all he had said was "Hello" It took a long time for it to get through to him that it didn't matter that…
I recall telling a male friend once that every woman in my life has been attacked, raped, or physically abused at some point in their life, and that I felt lucky that the worst that has ever happened to me was being stalked and harassed on the street. He was horrified both by what I said about the women in my life and…
As street harassment awareness has become more common, my husband (also a feminist) and I have talked about it a lot and in so doing I’ve shared a whole bunch of stories. He is horrified by them and asks “Wait, this happened when I knew you? Why did you never tell me about this?” I was like “This is just normal; more…
EXACTLY! I’m not leading you on, being coy, or playing hard to get. I’m Afraid!!
The #YesAllWomen campaign seems like a million years ago now. Remember how it started a national conversation (that I thought would actually have an impact... boy was I wrong)?
On a first/blind date, men fear that she’ll be ugly or “crazy”.
Boy do I hate being a man right about now...we are assholes and murderers...