Find a man, who is not just physically handsome but what is more important is that his care and love for you is beyond measure. Well, maybe I do get easily annoyed when I see couples doing soul-y stuff and being disgustingly adorable…. I want something real and I think a lot of us do too. I want something real. I want a guy who values the person I am and who knows my favorite color.

Tony laughs, his whole body shaking with it. His laughter has turned into shivering, but he grins at the man. The man grins back, crouching down. Are you warm? Tony keeps his smile. His touch is frigid, as cold as ice.

But the one I never wanted, the last one I expected, to help me in a moment of utter self resentment. I liked you a lot and I thought that since you wanted to stay with me for months it meant you liked me too. But I guess you were just using me, and that part still hurts. Because I wanted to go on trips with you, I wanted you to come to game nights with my family, I wanted to live with you one day just the two of us, and I wanted to adopt a dog with you like we talked about, and I actually believed those things would happen. I gave you a chance to put everything behind us and go back to normal and you turned it down.

Thank you everyone for your support and submissions. We capped the archive at submissions, primarily due to our own time commitments. We encourage you to consider submitting or tweeting your anecdotes to everydaysexism. Although the similarity and frequency of the incidents we reviewed was frankly both depressing and infuriating, this tumblr is also a record of all the amazing things that women accomplish, despite their knowledge and accomplishments so routinely being ignored and talked over by the men they encounter.