Using “sensitive” as a pejorative and a mechanism of restraint, as my dad did, is a form of misogyny. Being spit on because I was wearing my mother’s jacket was misogyny. The desire to attack me because I was a faggot who dared to make eye contact was misogyny. The eagerness to correct my walk was misogyny. The shaming of my skinniness and the pressure in gay culture to be muscular was misogyny. Men’s assumption that they are entitled to touch others’ bodies without consent and the dismissals of my boundaries were misogyny. The cab driver’s oversexualization of a young female passenger was
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