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This used to happen to me a lot and I am by no means successful, so I imagine it’s even worse the more recognized you become. I’ve even had it happen within my own band (which, truthfully, stung the worst coming from someone who’d been playing my songs for months and yet still could not believe I was capable of

It’s also important to note that males who experience domestic violence and/or are killed by intimate partners aren’t necessarily in a relationship with women.

While out shopping with my sister, someone left a dick pic (polaroid) on my car when I was 17. I hope whoever left it was watching when we found it because we basically died of laughter.

Your privilege is showing. Treating humans like humans sounds great in theory, but men (yes, ALL men) would need to consistently treat women like actual humans. Until THAT happens, for our own survival, we have to be afraid.

What I’ve never been able to understand is that at 8, I was mature enough to “choose” the Mormon church, but at 12, I wasn’t mature enough to leave it.

People don’t want to believe someone they look up to could do something like that. It’s easier to think of rapists as boogeymen and not your life-long friend, but the truth is, statistically, everyone knows at least one rapist. It’s how Cosby got away with it for so long, and still, there are people out there who

Yeah, for the drivers’ safety, I’d want only female or non-binary people to be eligible customers. I don’t know if that would ever be possible, though, given the likelihood of someone to cry discrimination.

I work at a music venue, which basically means I get off work in the wee hours of the morning when all the bars are closing. My friends and coworkers are appalled whenever they find out I (a petite woman) choose to walk two miles home instead of getting an Uber or Lyft (or a cab, even), but I feel way more anxious

When I was 19, I started wearing a wedding band at work because of creepers, too. Now that I’m in my 30s (and actually married), I can say with absolute confidence CREEPERS DO NOT CARE IF YOU’RE MARRIED. Case in point, I worked at a drag show last weekend and made the mistake of expressing to my coworkers, “Yay! Drag

Yeah, people will say that to me, too. I just chalk it up to them having mildly decent parents and are incapable of understanding what it’s like to depend on the worst bully you could imagine for survival. I haven’t spoken to my mom in three years. Still no regrets. I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.

Besides the usual “man-who-feels-the-need-to-ooze-into-my-seat-so-his-thigh-presses-into-mine,” a guy once told me he liked seeing the color of my lipstick on his dick... & that was the last time I wore lipstick on the bus!

Female musician, here. Venue staff has (more than once) assumed I was my bandmate’s girlfriend and not a member of the band (This doesn’t happen anymore, but that’s because I play solo, now). When I was in a band, people assumed my (male) bandmates wrote all the songs when I wrote about 80% of our material. I’ve even

What pissed me off the most was the friend's response— like guys should get a pass because it's "harder" to get women off and guys just don't know how! Does he think women were born already knowing how to give blowjobs?

Sweatpants are way easier to take off than my skinny jeans, if ya know what I mean.

I'm getting to the age where if I'm going to have kids at all, I need to do it soon. The only thing stopping me is my growing disinterest. My husband and I have been together for ten years, we're financially secure (for the most part), and seeing as how his own father was a stay-at-home Dad, I know I won't get saddled

I used to run a DIY music venue. For the first year, we hosted 21+ shows, so on the eve of our first all-ages show, my colleague (male, mid-30s, father of two young girls) said, "I don't know if I'll be able to tell the difference between a teenager and a twenty-one-year-old." Within five minutes, these two girls come

I wonder when DHS will finally see "Devout Christian Family" as a potential red flag instead of a "plus" when it comes to placing troubled children.

For what it's worth, I believe you.

THIS. I don't know how to explain this kind of exhaustion to my male friends in a way they will understand. Usually, their response is something along the lines of, "You should get a gun," but how is that going to solve anything? To me, that would make it WORSE. Having to literally arm myself before going out to buy