Couldn’t think of a more apt quote for these times than this one from Rupi Kaur’s “Milk & Honey.”
Good Morning, Mary Suevians!
We Set Up A Hotline to Help You Reject Creepy Men
Remember the old reject hotline number? Well we have created our own! Sometimes at The Mary Sue we get messages and comments from our readers about feeling unsafe in certain situations. At times, our readers have told us, even, that they direct men who have bothered them to our site or our Facebook. With that in mind, we decided to do more. Hopefully this helps, and teaches a lesson.
It made me realize just how little some men understand about what most women actually fear.
Exclusive: Kasey Rose-Hodge on Her Internet-Breaking Essay About the Predators Women Face (x)
Questions about whether women can be funny aren’t constructive, they’re outdated and redundant–because we’re going to be hearing the same answer over and over again no matter how many times they come up.
Why Are People Still Asking Whether Women Can Be Funny? (x)
I have news for these commenters: ‘What’s with all the exclusion? Isn’t having only one gender kind of unfair?’ is pretty much how women feel looking at all media, all the time.
Here’s an easy one: Relax and participate in our interests with us! It’s stressful being told the world would be better off without you everywhere you go for a month. Let your autistic friends relax—don’t judge them for acting “weird,” because the pressure to act normal can cause burnout, and it’s boring anyway. Try not to ask us too much why we do what we do, unless it’s through something like this, because sometimes, it’s just how we are, and trying to figure out why can use up a lot of energy. Just binge watch shows with us and ask us about our main interests instead (if you’ve got nowhere to be for a while)!
Part of the fun was this friendship that forms between my character and Margot [Robbie] and Tina [Fey], that they have to band together, and it’s great to see a movie where women are coming together rather than being competitive with each other.
We just started talking and she decided she wasn’t going to let him win.







