What is everyday sexism ?
Laura Bates created a website where women who experience everyday sexism may talk about it. The site has become a huge reference place of how gender imbalance is common and a fascinating reading.
She shares here a fast succession of those phrases and situations that happen to men and women around the world—from small spoken words of harassment to crimes.
Social shift against harassment is what Laura Bates is calling for. Make a fuss about common incidents and asking men to be part of the change is the task of Everyday Sexism.
Yet another example of Lewis’ Law: The comments on any article about feminism justify feminism.
Interesting video…I was getting coffee with my husband a few weeks ago…I walked ahead of him about 10 feet in front (dressed in yoga pants and my winter coat with hoodie) to the coffee shop…usually we are lost in conversation so I probably would have dismissed this as background noise in the past…but I heard some whistling from across the street…the whistles got louder and I instinctively slowed down so that my husband could catch up to me….we continued out conversation and were a few feet from the coffeehouse door, but the whistles continued….In the glass door reflection, I could… Read more »