4 Quotes by Jessica Bennett

Within every woman exists a warrior. Really.

What do you feel passionately about? What irks you the most at your office, or your campus? Create a protest around it. Ideas: Make stickers that say “FFC IS WATCHING” and place them over the mouths of sexist ads you see on the subway. Organize the women in your office to wear your bulkiest winter gear for a day—to protest how goddamn cold the air conditioning is.

Recognizing sexism is harder than it once was. Like the micro-aggressions that people of color endure daily – racism masked as subtle insults or dismissals – today’s sexism is insidious, casual, politically correct, even friendly. It.

Remember: white men constitute just 31 percent of the American population. There is no situation in which they should be constituting the majority of the room.