Violation

Sometimes the earliest warning comes from the youngest person in the house. Children notice things. They notice when their mother lowers her voice before answering the phone. They notice when …

One side wants women to go back. The other has people telling women to move over. And somewhere in the middle, women are asking a perfectly reasonable question: When do …

Some Survivors of abuse become particularly unwilling to participate in narratives they believe are false, especially after they have spent years being pressured to distrust their own observations, memories, and …

Women spent generations fighting to get out of boxes. Now we’re supposed to celebrate somebody handing us a new set of instructions? Well, hold on a minute. Because I remember …

No child is “the issue.” This is about the adults. If girls must continually prove their goodness through accommodation, we have not finished unlearning sexism Some people seem very concerned …

We recognize the expectation that women should accommodate men. We recognize the practice of dismissing women’s objections as emotional, irrational, or uninformed. We recognize the habit of treating women’s sacrifices …

This post was inspired in part by this article……Russell Brand and the tyranny of the Greater Good – spiked Some people have not abandoned the expectation that women should sacrifice. …

Some people are still practicing sexism and calling it “progress” The 1971 case of Sabrina Dale Press reveals how far a Texas school district was willing to go to enforce …

It took a long time for my mother to be comfortable with me wearing pants. I think it was 3rd grade. A lot of GenX, Boomer and more blessed years …

It is almost 2027, and 1970s-era sexism is still wrong even if you call it “progress.” In January 1976, a Maryland newspaper investigation revealed what girls were still facing in …