Get a sense of humor.
It was just a joke.
You're too sensitive.
This is just how it is.
This is our world, not yours.
We only gave you rights to shut you up.
You should be grateful for what we let you have.
Your kind are the reason women need to get beaten.
Learn your place.
Get on your knees where you belong.
Someone is going to rape you one day.
I hope someone finds you in an alley.
If my wife talked like you do, I'd knock her teeth out.
You need a tampon.
Someone has sand in her vagina.
Sounds like it's somebody's time of the month.
Someone needs a man to put her in her place.
Get back in the kitchen.
Make me a sandwich.
You wouldn't talk so much with my ---- in your mouth.
There is an idea that this kind of scum only exists in seedy places like poorly-lit bars or in back alleys of sketchy neighborhoods. Wrong. These are things I've heard said to me, and I've personally heard men say to friends of mine. At bookstores, in offices, in coffee shops, and on the street. The place I hear these types of things the most often though - male-dominated parts of our world. Places that men have claimed and hold on to with a ferocity that rivals wild animals.
The irony is how often these types of comments are thrown at women who have done nothing to provoke the attack. Simply by existing in the vicinity of men, women are now the target for these kinds of attacks. And we are made to believe that not only do we deserve this treatment, but we need to just allow it to happen because 'it's just a joke' or 'we need to lighten up'.
I for one am SICK OF BEING THE BUTT OF JOKES.
I am well beyond the point of rational, calm discussion about this. This has got to STOP. And the only way it's going to stop is by every single person taking a stand against this abuse.
These are your sons, your husbands, your brothers, your coworkers, the people you hang out with, the people you laugh at, the people you turn a blind eye to.
These vermin are attacking your daughters, your wives, your sisters, your mothers, your friends. Are you going to stand up for them or turn a blind eye until you find yourself standing at their graveside wondering how the hell it got so bad for them they saw no other way out??
When are we going to wake the hell up...
abuse wise on average, more than three women and one man are murdered by their intimate partners in this country every day. In 2000, 1,247 women were killed by an intimate partner. The same year, 440 men were killed by an intimate partner. Intimate partner homicides accounted for 30% of the murders of women and 5% percent of the murders of men.
ReplyDelete(Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief, Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001, February 2003. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Intimate Partner Violence in the U.S. 1993-2004, 2006.)
More people die from aids, car accidents, smoking, heart disease, cancer, diabetes and hippopotamuses. With only 20% women experiencing domestic violence in their LIFETIME. I fail to see how this abuse is an out of control problem unless you mean, "someone said something mean to me" and we should "stand against this abuse" of mean words. Sounds like you ran into a jerk and they come in all races/genders. So maybe you not talk to those people anymore instead of making a call to arms on the internet.
Feminists are retarded. This article is proof.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous #1 - regarding your stats.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, this post had nothing to do with physical abuse. You'll be interested to know that abuse come in many forms, including verbal and psychological. Verbal and psychological abuse do not have statistics. They aren't tracked, they aren't counted, and there are no signs left over after the fact that you can take a photo of.
The only thing we can 'see' are stats of depression, self-injury, suicide, PTSD, and other trauma-wrought mental illnesses.
Thank you, though, for your well-thought advice on 'not talking to those people anymore.' I will certainly do what I can to avoid encounters with men at grocery stores, gas stations, book stores, clothing stores, coffee shops, doctors offices, networking events, restaurants, and every job I ever have for the rest of my life. I hadn't realized that such a simple solution existed!
Anonymous #2 - your argument is invalid.
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