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Sara Benincasa explains: "#YesAllWomen is important because a lot of very good guys just don't know what it's like to walk around in a female body. They don’t know what it's like to live with the constant nagging threat of sexual violence every time we walk to our cars alone in a parking garage, or walk down the street at night to pick up food for our kids. They don't know what it’s like to get grabbed, poked, and prodded in public by strangers who are bigger and stronger than we are. Being a woman can be really scary, and if more guys realized it, they might modify their own behavior or call their friends out on bad behavior.”
Twitter Against Misogyny: 20 Top Tweets From The #YesAllWomen Revolution
The hashtag #YesAllWomen appeared on twitter over half a million times by Sunday afternoon, and is still going strong a day later. Though it has of course inspired it's own backlash (the tag #notallmen, amid cries of misandry) to most eyes, this is a powerful coming together of female experiences in one place at a time when we could hardly need it more. To read these voices, one after another, is to understand the individual experience of being a woman in a patriarchal society in a whole new way.
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