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1 " Even though it's only a minority of men who are violent or predatory, I don't know if men realise that girls are trained our entire lives to minimise the danger from you - and blamed if we don't. "
― Sara Pascoe , Sex Power Money
2 " Why are boys’ feelings a girl’s responsibility? This is treating the male response as unavoidable: the problem is schoolgirls’ hemlines. "
3 " the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over. "
4 " I am sorry for men because our culture tells them to introduce themselves to women who in the vast, vast majority don’t want to meet them. "
5 " This is adulthood,’ I thought. ‘Being grown-up means watching people get stoned and not crying when they put on videos of aggressive sex. "
6 " There’s a range of pills that claim to help men create more semen. Why? WHY? I stared at my computer; why would anyone want more of the sticky annoying bit? "
7 " To be a woman is to occasionally feel, thanks to a few men, as if you are a shop – a department store with orifices on every level. It can feel like persecution. You’re trying to check a bus timetable or call your mum, while simultaneously advertising sex without meaning to. "
8 " Birds are monogamous because their young require the input of two parents. This isn’t romance, it’s evolutionary necessity. "
9 " If you would like some chat to ruin any party’s vibe, research dowry deaths and bride burning. Thousands of women are murdered every year because the father who ‘owns’ them does not pay enough to their new keeper. "
10 " Fear and arousal is not just a great band name, they predispose our deepest, most subconscious emotional needs. "
11 " We’re descended from the watching-his-every-move, spreading-rumours-that-he’s-impotent, accusing-him-of-flirting-with-his-mum, jealous bitches. "
12 " When studies examining gender differences don’t reflect my experience I sigh to myself, ‘Must be a man then, what with my masculine reaction,’ rather than remembering that it’s only ever a small sample being extrapolated from. "
13 " When looking for evolutionary explanations it can seem like we’re seeking to excuse behaviour, to justify it. But I do not think there is any excuse or justification. Evolutionary pressures are not a defence. "
14 " I think all human beings should be free to use their body however they want … unless that involves buying sexual access to another person. Then I think they should have a wank and shut up. "
15 " I can’t imagine a young man being told not to dress a certain way because a homosexual person might find them sexy. In those instances, the target of the attraction would never be blamed. Responsibility would rest with the feeler of feelings. "
16 " The most important lesson of adulthood might be that just because you feel something, that doesn’t mean someone intended you to feel it. That applies to both the women in LinkedIn photos and the men making comments. "
17 " I have money now, I never have to speak to anyone I don’t want to, and I love it. What money has bought me is freedom, and I never forget it. "
18 " This is why it’s a mystery … why have a big penis? If it doesn’t aid conception, what the hell IS it doing? "
19 " Scientists can ascertain the promiscuity level of every species by the size of the male gonad. "
20 " 1) Be wary of men from new tribes 2) Pair with a male who can protect you 3) Only copulate hidden from view in order not to excite/incite unwanted males "
