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...
