Not Over Night

spareunderthemattt:

isagiatt:

misterprankster:

poupak:

paulftompkins:

“Ask your female friends, if you have any, if they’ve ever walked home late at night with a key pushed through their knuckles, just in case, if they’ve ever crossed the street to avoid a stranger, just in case, if they’ve ever taken the long way home because of the weird guy on the corner, just in case. Ask them if they’ve ever made up a boyfriend to get a guy to leave them alone, if they’ve ever gotten off a train car and moved to the next because you just never know, if they’ve ever shelled out for a cab because men like you were at the bus stop.”

This is a great, well-written piece by Emily Heist Moss. Read the whole thing.

Everybody should read this. Seriously.

Passing along in honor of my daughter(s).  Pass it along to your sons, brothers, and fathers.  They’re the ones who need to read it.

When women get harassed on the street, or at a bar, or on their walk home from work, do you know what we think? We wonder, am I going to get out of this safely? Am I going to walk away from this? 

what scares me more than anything is that the disgusting scumbags in downtown Raleigh are brazen enough to yell shit at me when i’m WITH A GUY. this has happened MULTIPLE TIMES. what the fucking FUCK.

It is stuff like this that pisses me off.

Not the letter, the fact that it needs to exist.

The fact that I rode a bus home for over a month, before I said hi to a girl that got on at the metro, just like me, and got off at the same stop, and lived in the same development as me.

It is why I would walk really fast when we got off the bus so i would be in front of her, so she wouldn’t have to worry about some guy walking behind her.

Dear dudes, stop being creepers!

(via bikesbrainsbetterliving)