Rebecca Solnit Quote
Jenny Chiu tweeted, Sure #NotAllMen are misogynists and rapists. That’s not the point. The point is that #YesAllWomen live in fear of the ones that are. Women—and men (but mostly women)—said scathing things brilliantly. • #YesAllWomen because I can’t tweet about feminism without getting threats and perverted replies. Speaking out shouldn’t scare me. • #YesAllWomen because I’ve seen more men angry at the hashtag rather than angry at the things happening to women. • #YesAllWomen because if you’re too nice to them you’re leading them on & if you’re too rude you risk violence. Either way you’re a bitch.
Rebecca Solnit
Jenny Chiu tweeted, Sure #NotAllMen are misogynists and rapists. That’s not the point. The point is that #YesAllWomen live in fear of the ones that are. Women—and men (but mostly women)—said scathing things brilliantly. • #YesAllWomen because I can’t tweet about feminism without getting threats and perverted replies. Speaking out shouldn’t scare me. • #YesAllWomen because I’ve seen more men angry at the hashtag rather than angry at the things happening to women. • #YesAllWomen because if you’re too nice to them you’re leading them on & if you’re too rude you risk violence. Either way you’re a bitch.
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About Rebecca Solnit
Solnit is the author of seventeen books, including River of Shadows, which won the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism; A Paradise Built in Hell, from 2009, which charts community responses to disaster; The Faraway Nearby, a wide-ranging memoir published in 2013; and Men Explain Things to Me, a collection of essays on feminism and women's writing first published in 2014.