The Hind End of Space

The group of women was racially and economically diverse, but the answers had a very similar theme. Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty to them. “I was walking home from ballet and a guy in a car yelled, ‘Lick me!’” “I was babysitting my younger cousins when a guy drove by and yelled, ‘Nice ass.’” There were pretty much zero examples like “I first knew I was a woman when my mother and father took me out to dinner to celebrate my success on the debate team.” It was mostly men yelling shit from cars.

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Tina Fey talking about an exercise in which women were asked to write down the moment they first “knew they were a woman.” (via feferi)

I had the most reaffirming moment on Friday when I threw up on the streets of Boston and some car drove by and the driver honked and gave me a thumbs-up. If only he knew I was sober and just had a migraine…

(Source: whappara-para-blog)