This is particularly offensive if you look at an incident like the Montreal Massacre, where the gunman stated that he hated feminists before opening fire (and killed fourteen womyn — only womyn, because they were womyn). My skin crawls.

I was bullied in elementary school and REALLY bullied in middle school. As the years went on, most of the bullying was gender-based. I left my first middle school and transferred to an all-girls middle/high school, where I had a much more productive experience. The depression didn’t go away (it still hasn’t), but being at [...]