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Disbelief is the first great silencer.

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I’m fifteen and I feel like girl my age are under a lot of pressure that boys are not under. I know I am smart, I know I am kind and funny, and I know...more

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This is not a men vs women issue. It’s about people vs prejudice.

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Girls are not only being denied access to scientific and adventurous toys, they're also presented with such a narrow range of options that domesticity...more

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How can I believe the people that say women have equal rights? When the worst insult a man can be called is a woman, girly, a twat, a cunt, that he ne...more

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One day, in the very early months of the project, I read several entries in a single week from girls who had been subjected to leering and shouting fr...more

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Women are silenced by both the invisibility and the acceptability of the problem.

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The very fact that it is necessary in the twenty-first century to explain why it's not okay to publicly debate whether or not women are "asking" for s...more

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As long as we as a society continue to belittle and dismiss women's accounts, disbelieve and question their stories, and blame them for their own assa...more

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One of the cleverest and most insidious twists in the whole sorry tale is the way women are double bound by a gender-biased definition of professional...more

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The incidents that go unwitnessed definitely help to keep sexism off the radar, and unacknowledged problem we don't discuss. But so too do the regular...more

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Tired of cold callers asking to speak to the 'man in the house', now I put them on to my 6-year old son... he sings them 'Sexy and I Know It'.

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This combination of ageism and sexism was also blatant in the Boston Herald's treatment of sixty-three-year-old Elizabeth Warren, whose 2012 Senate bi...more

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Sexism is often an invisible problem. This is partly because it's so frequently manifest in situations where the only witnesses present are victim and...more

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The more stories I heard, the more I tried to talk about the problem. And yet time and time again I found myself coming up against the same response: ...more