you’re never too young to be taught that your body is yours. i saw on FB a woman’s article that she taught her daughter that it’s ok not to hug or kiss anybody the little girl didn’t want to. this teaches even at a young age that a child has agency over her/his body.

I’m so sorry you went through that. I agree with you completely. We were trained about unwanted touching, and not letting anyone touch our genitals, when we were very young—it came up in kindergarten, but one of the mothers at my babysitter’s mentioned it when I was very little—4 years old, or maybe younger. “Even if…

I remember watching one of the documentaries about them and there was video footage of them with her as a baby and I remember my first reaction, even knowing she’s an adult now, was to think that poor baby may not survive being their child. It was horrifying in the same way as watching Michael Jackson dangle his baby…

This is why I get so pissed off at the “he’s just pulling your pigtails because he has a crush on you” rhetoric. We have a chance to talk about boundaries and consent from a very young age, but historically we’ve excused unwanted touching because “boys will be boys”. All children should learn from the beginning 1) if…

To me, there is no “too early.” I can’t actually pinpoint when my abuse started, because it was at either age 3 or 4 (4 for sure, because I can remember specific incidents correlated with other events that I know I was 4 at, but I know that it was something that was not the first time. It had already been going on).…

Agreed. I’ve already started with my daughter. She’s 9. She knows her body and how it works / what will be changing in puberty, she knows the mechanics of sex and we’ve worked with her since toddlerhood on consent (no you don’t have to kiss grandma if you don’t want to, it’s your body.) I’m hoping that’s a solid…

Unfortunately this summer my husband had to take our 12 year old daughter and her friend aside at the beach and talk to them about it after he chased off a creeper older teen. Apparently the girls took it okay ( I wasn’t there-the teen “accidentally” touched one of the girls butt and then was “adjusting” himself) but…

Such a tough thing - you’re totally right and I felt the same as a teenage girl, that I just wish someone had been honest with me about all the bullshit and patriarchy I was encountering... I was just angry angry angry all the time, and being told to smile. Rage face.

“That’s pretty depressing. Adults are explaining Harvey Weinstein to 14-year-olds right now.” This is disheartening in that adults shouldn’t have to explain it because it never should have happened. But 14 year olds, especially girls and gender minorities, but honestly any 14 year old working in show business, are…

Right! I feel really sad for her because I think of how sad I am losing my dad at 30 and how I will miss a whole life with him. But she really didn’t have a father at all and has really seen some shit I am sure with her mom being Courtney Love (I am a big CL music fan that being said).

I think she does - but I also think its probably hard to think he was also a drug addict and committed suicide. I mean his awesomeness was driven by a much darker side sadly.

Farted directly onto a guy who was leering and licking his lips at me on the subway, #BecauseImALady.

Christ, people, leave that poor family alone. They’ve had more than enough of your psycho batshit for the past 20 years.

Dude, this song is making fun of casual misandry. It paints generalizing men in such a bad light that other commenters are accusing it of being misogynist or on the side of rape culture.

I think it’s aimed primarily at the conventions of shows and movies like this. There always seems to be a scene (especially in older romantic comedies), in which a group of women get drunk and, well, generalize about men. This show has always taken aim as tropes (rushing to the airport to stop a loved one from moving,…

I want to think we may have turned some kind of a corner here on tolerance of sexual harassment and abuse, but part of me feels we’re only days before the backlash starts and Fox/Trump are screaming about witchhunts and sexual McCarthyism without a trace of irony.

My first reaction was, ‘why is she married to that old man?’

Or the phrase“I have a strong personality”

Every person I have ever met who claims to ‘alpha’ or just ‘blunt’ is almost always an asshole. I’m very suspicious of people who need to describe themselves in those terms.

Signed someone whose “woke” white friend’s husband jokingly called me a prairie n****r.