I had the audacity to comment on a Facebook group post (something about Volvo creating seat belts) that everything from cars to seat belts and much more have been made for and to fit men’s bodies aka Default Male as Caroline Criado Perez calls it in Invisible Women.
I got flack from two men, one I blocked for being extremely rude and crude and the other one wanted to know if it was sexist to say that men’s bodies are different from women’s bodies. I wanted to say do men have ovaries, give birth and have monthly menstrual cycles but I did not say that.
I was reminded of a man who had the arrogance, ignorance and audacity to question a woman gynecologist and a whole bunch of women about one particular lady part (that men do not have). He considered himself an expert while all of the women laughed, mocked and told him he was wrong. That is sexism to say the least.
And women who are sexually active, are single, consider themselves feminists, are looking for a mate or husband, and/or a date, do NOT NOT NOT want to receive dick pics, to be sexually harassed online or on the street, nor do they want or are they asking to be raped. Thank you very much.
From: BillCosby.com
Entertainer Bill Cosby has been released from prison after Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court threw out his sexual assault conviction.
According to news reports, Cosby, 83, was released "after the court found an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case."
Cosby was serving a three to ten year prison sentence after being convicted of sexually assaulting and drugging a woman in 2004. The court allowed six other accusers from incidents as far back as the 1980s to testify at his trial. The Pennsylvania high court also reportedly ruled that testimony tainted the trial.
From Rebecca Solnit: (my former Supervisor and the creator of mansplaining)
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to shoot at you again
Because a rapist softly creeping
Left his seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
And in the naked light, I saw
Ten thousand women, maybe more
Women talking without speaking
No one daring to be listening
Women writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence