It's exhausting for women to consider: this is just…

It's exhausting for women to consider: this is just the tip of the iceberg

louis ck — ‘This is just a tiny fraction of the horror women are enduring.’ Photograph: Gary Miller/Getty Images

What’s difficult about being a feminist writer in this moment - when so many men are being outed as abusers, so many women coming forward with their stories - is that we know this is just the tip of the iceberg.

For every story that gets published, there are 10 or 20 more that will never see the light of day. All of us who do this work are hearing from women, a lot of women.

Some of these women will decide that they don’t want to go public after all, some won’t have their stories told because their attacker isn’t high-profile enough. There are all sorts of reasons that not everyone’s story gets told. But they’re there.

So as we continue to read and shake our heads in disappointment, remember that this is just a tiny fraction of the horror women are enduring. We have so much more work to do.

Glass Half Full

If all else is getting you down, at least you’re not this guy.

What I’m RTing

amid all of this, i honestly still can’t believe that the person who literally admitted to sexual assault *on tape* is in the white house. it’s just astonishing
— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) November 10, 2017

"They're kneeling to protest police violence."
"Awful!"
"He preyed on a 14 yr old."
"Well she's not 14 anymore so what's the problem?"
— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) November 10, 2017

"Whoa if true" is not an acceptable answer to four women alleging pedophilia on the record
— Lucia Graves (@lucia_graves) November 9, 2017

All these GOP senators say they’ll disavow Moore “if” the allegations are true. What is the level of proof they require? Only if Moore fesses up? Women are on the record.
— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) November 9, 2017