Writers cannot protect their readers from themselves, nor should they be expected to. - Roxane Gay

It's hard not to feel humorless, as a woman and a feminist, to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you're not imagining things. It's hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you're going to float the fuck away. The problem is not that one of these things is happening; it's that they are all happening, concurrently and constantly.

I will never forgive the boys who raped me and I am a thousand percent comfortable with that because forgiving them will not free me from anything. I

feminists are “just women who don’t want to be treated like shit.