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theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 06:34 PM Jun 2014

When Women Refuse: Website collects examples of violent attacks against women who rejected men

When Women Refuse: Website collects examples of violent attacks against women who rejected men
The When Women Refuse Tumblr blog, which was shared in the #YesAllWomen Twitter hashtag, was created in the wake of Elliot Rodger's killing spree in Santa Barbara, Calif. It curates news articles about what happened to women who turned down the sexual advances of men.
BY Victoria Taylor
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

...When Women Refuse, which was started by feminist activist and Lux Digital Co-founder Deanna Zandt, contains a growing collection of links to articles that show the terrifying experiences of women around the world...

...When Women Refuse highlights numerous cases of men beating — sometimes fatally — women who turn them down.

The submissions also include an article on a South Carolina man hurling a 12-pound bowling ball at a woman’s head because she refused to let him buy her drinks and one about a British man who smashed a glass bottle on a clubgoer’s head because she didn’t want to dance with him.

And then there was the 16-year-old Connecticut girl whose friends say she was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife in April because she refused to go to junior prom with a fellow student.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/website-calls-attention-happen-women-refuse-article-1.1807107#ixzz34BTCZzZK
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When Women Refuse: Website collects examples of violent attacks against women who rejected men (Original Post) theHandpuppet Jun 2014 OP
I've always been a lot less offended by passes from lesbians than from men Warpy Jun 2014 #1
I always just vigorously scratched my crotch Skittles Jun 2014 #3
After I became a nurse I could threaten them with AIDS Warpy Jun 2014 #4
Thanks ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #2

Warpy

(111,222 posts)
1. I've always been a lot less offended by passes from lesbians than from men
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 06:42 PM
Jun 2014

because men are so much more likely to become violent. I had fast reflexes and managed to duck but I was lucky in that regard.

My turndowns were always polite. Many men just weren't equal to the job in return.

Skittles

(153,138 posts)
3. I always just vigorously scratched my crotch
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 12:00 AM
Jun 2014

saying, DAMN, THE DOC SAID THIS WOULD BE GONE IN A WEEK BUT IT'S ALREADY BEEN TWO. No threat of violence with that.

Warpy

(111,222 posts)
4. After I became a nurse I could threaten them with AIDS
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 01:25 AM
Jun 2014

because health care workers were considered high risk. That made a lot of them slink away.

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