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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are so awful. I am so sorry. I am lucky that the worst that's ever happened to me has been catcalls and inappropriate comments about my breasts from construction workers and professional corner-lounging guys. I am regular looking but not beautiful or "hot" and have always been on the heavier side of normal weight, so maybe that's why.

When I was in kindergarten I came home and told my parents that one of the boys in class repeatedly pulled up my skirt and tried to pull down my underwear. My parents were outraged and told the teacher, who said[b] "boys will be boys."[/b] Within a week my parents enrolled me in Tae Kwon Do classes, which continued until I quit at age 16 because I had too much schoolwork. They gave me explicitly permission to physically defend myself if the boy or anyone else tried to touch me when I didn't want to be touched. I credit those classes for a lot of my physical self-confidence. (Mental self-confidence, ie considering oneself attractive, is an ongoing issue, however!) Also, my parents explicitly told me and my sister that if anyone ever touched us inappropriately, or we felt threatened, we should tell them. I guess they were ahead of the curve on this since I don't remember sexual assault being discussed anywhere else until I was in college. (I was born in 1980 if dates matter.) [/quote]

WTF!?[/quote]

PP you are quoting -- I agree (and so did my parents!) but frankly this whole thread is WTF because sexual abuse is so awful! It's so terrible to think that there are people in the world who do these things. [/quote]

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