Gah, I know that feeling. I had completely blocked out that memory until these stories came out and I knew I had a more unpleasant male abuse story in the past year but I just couldn’t place it. Funny how memories work eh.

Yeah, that was shocking for me too. One thing that gets more and more clear the older I get was how much my mother prioritized my happiness and wellbeing over herself. Sometimes she maybe didn’t make the best decision in the long run, but she was always doing what at the time she believed was best. These women…

You didn’t fall for anything, you were being a decent member of society and were repaid by someone being crude and disrespecting women. I’m really trying to push myself to stop feeling guilty when I now react this way, since WE AREN’T DOING ANYTHING WRONG STANDING UP FOR OURSELVES. Internal mantra stuff.

Nah. I just started yelling at him to leave me alone, fuck off, etc. while continuing to quickly walk away in case he decided to get physically intimidating. Thanks for that though ;)

Normally I do tend to ignore simple cat calls since I just don’t want to actively processing them. I guess this was more of a really crude come on/entitlement that just enraged me. Went something like this

One of the other women I work with (in a male dominated industry/office) and I have both started lightly pushing back when people use that phrase. I mostly hear it when the man saying it to me/us is the one freaking. We’ve both started calmly mentioning to them that we/myself are totally calm, we’ve got this under…

Never seen this video/heard this song. But a few years I completely snapped when it came to just accepting male abuse. Most recent occurence was when I lost it on a guy who was crudely cat calling me when I was walking home one night. Obviously he started throwing vitriol as soon as I didn’t just take his abuse. Also…

I know, still makes me angry. They could at least drop the act.

I don’t get it either. I’ve always found Hillary Clinton to be inspiring (though I was a child (in Canada) when Bill was president so didn’t really grasp all that madness). The amount of people in Canada who blindly hate her as well is mind boggling. I don’t get it, and I don’t get how so many people can’t even begin…

WHY WAS HE ONLY PUT ON LEAVE NOW? NOT IN 2015!?!?!?! Good god HR, you can’t react appropriately only when the public finds out, that’s not cool, or proper HR. At least do your damn job.

MAIL ORDER PHARMACY!? IN CANADA? WHERE IS THIS MAGICAL PLACE.

Ugh. I had something happen to me that just jumped back into my brain a few years ago. Luckily he never physicall assaulted me but he scared me deeply and I was a sobbing mess the rest of the evening. Some lonely asshat in a bar started yelling and screaming at me since apparently I wasn’t properly conversing with him…

Dear god. My boyfriend was definitely the pursuer of the relationship, I wasn’t really interested at first. BUT, when I told him I needed space since I just didn’t think I could date him, he fucking left me alone. Eventually I realized he was amazing, but I did that all on my own. Him being respectful of my words and…

Ahhh. I did not realize that. Didn’t recognize the songs. Well, I’m happy to hear more duets with Tim, so at least there’s some more Faith coming out!

Didn’t she release an album in 2016? Deep Tracks? I see one on Spotify.

Yep, I was harassed by a coworker recently and I truly don’t think he realized at the time he was being incredibly rude and had just sexually harassed me. It was Friday and i was wearing a t-shirt with a word/slogan on the chest. I have a fairly large chest for my frame and he made a comment on ‘well how am I NOT…

Yep, same. I’m the only woman in my department, so if I want to go out for lunch some day and don’t want to do it alone I either have to go find another woman from another group or go with another project engineer. It’s not weird to have lunch one on one with them since we’re all peers, get along well, and generally…

Yup. My father is a raging narcissist, I was my mother’s only child but his third, and due to my half-brother’s mother also being a narcissist I have done better than they have (by the usual metrics). I was essentially the golden child my entire life, but was entirely ignored by my father unless he could trot me out…

Yep, same here. This one was particularly chilling to me since I have been known to attend a country music festival or two in the past few years, and literally saw Jason Aldean in concern last year, so I could so clearly imagine being there/what the setting must’ve looked like RIGHT BEFORE it all started.

Are those Steve Madden? If so, I totally had the white version of those when I was a tween. I adoooooored them.