Men Explain Things to Me

obedience-and-authority

• Violence is one way to silence people, to deny their voice and their credibility, to assert your right to control over their right to exist.

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• She just discovered that she herself did not exist, but her brothers did. Her mother did not exist … a vast population erased.

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trauma-and-survival

• Silence, like Dante's hell, has its concentric circles. First come internal inhibitions, self-doubts, repressions, confusions, and shame that make it difficult to impossible to speak.

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• There is a pattern of violence against women that's broad and deep and horrific and incessantly overlooked … a kind of background wallpaper for the news.

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shame

• The implication that women as a category are unreliable … is used to silence individual women and to avoid discussing sexual violence.

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• Millions came together in a vast conversational network to share experiences, revisit meanings and definitions, and arrive at new understandings.

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