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“Over a third of all women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual violence (not including sexual harassment) at some point in their lives. One hundred and thirty-seven women across the world are killed by a member of their own family every day.1”
― Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All

“Then one sunny day”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“But we don’t like to offend men. So we don’t mention it. We do not use the word terrorism when describing a crime of mass murder committed by a white man with the explicit intention of creating terror and spreading hatred against a specific demographic group—even though that is the definition of terrorism—if the demographic in question is women.”
― Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All

“Of course, if we were actively teaching young people about healthy relationships and sexual consent at school, such poor advice might not have such a catastrophic impact: at least boys would have something else to weigh against these suggestions. But the current provision of relationships and sex education is extraordinarily poor, with one recent study finding that just a quarter of young people were ever taught about consent at school.16 This creates a vacuum that can be dangerously filled by disingenuous advice and pickup bile.”
― Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All