It’s Really Time for the Harassment to End. By Amanda MarcotteFriday, September 7, 2012 9:23 EDT Ann Friedman posted this quote from Ellen Willis recently, and I find myself continually drawn to its eloquence and perfection: Often men’s impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power. Of course, the reason it feels intolerable is that, from the cradle, men are told they are better than women and that women exist to serve them: sexually, domestically, and at times, in the workplace. Growing up and wanting something from women and finding out that they can say “no”—despite the fact that they were put here to serve you!
—is often extremely distressing to men. To say otherwise—to say that a woman has a right to decline to give you attention—is “misandry”. After all, that’s what women are for, isn’t it? Blog | Unique Home Decor and Affordable Home Furnishings. Fat Sex: What Everyone Wants to Know but is Afraid to Ask in Sex on Persephone Magazine. Comics, Quizzes, and Stories - The Oatmeal. The little owl. 40 Lessons for Finding Strength in Hard Times.
Post written by: Marc Chernoff Sometimes you have to die a little on the inside first in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger, smarter version of yourself. Nobody gets through life without losing someone they love, someone they need, or something they thought was meant to be. But it is these losses that make us stronger and eventually move us toward future opportunities for growth and happiness. Over the past five years Angel and I have dealt with several hardships, including the sudden death of a sibling, the loss of a best friend to illness, betrayal from a business partner, and an unexpected (breadwinning) employment layoff.
These experiences were brutal. Each of them, naturally, knocked us down and off course for a period of time. Here are some lessons we’ve learned along the way: You are not what happened to you in the past. – No matter how chaotic the past has been, the future is a clean, fresh, wide open slate. Photo by: Chris Schoenbohm.
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