While not all men are sexist, all women face the impact of sexism in some way, so the point is there's a massive problem to be solved, and you can be a big part of the solution. — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women's 'choices' of work type, hours, and child related career breaks, effectively making… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“Newton: but a lot of the guys here were in prison before they came here and they’ll still be in prison when they leave… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled. — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“It is not our conscience that torments us over our image; that is our ego tormenting us. Our conscience torments us when we behave… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
Feminism means believing that everybody should be treated equally regardless of their sex. Which happens to include the right to wear whatever you want,… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“Just got called a slag by two guys sitting outside the University of York library. A slag for books?” — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
It's true that the gender pay gap is complicated. It's true that it is very slowly getting smaller. But that doesn't mean it doesn't… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
Turns out, this 'whatabboutery' is a classic way of silencing women when you don't like what they're fighting for. Don't panic, feminists are quite… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a handy, controversial… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
As long as 85,000 women are raped every year and 400,000 sexually assaulted in England and Wales alone, it's hard to argue that there… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
We can't create a shift in normalised attitudes and behaviours without everybody on board, so not being sexist isn't enough - get stuck in… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
