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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW, I'm a woman whose glad this is all coming out, but who is also extremely triggered by it.  I have memories of various kinds of sexual assault and harrassment since HS - boobs grabbed, date rape in college, various forms of street harrassment (including literally being picked up and slung over the shoulders of a stranger and carried off on the street at night), older men in my profession (40s) expressing professional interest in me (in my mid-twenties) that then turned to sexual interest, key professional colleagues sexually harrassing me (including the main grantor to my organization), sexual harrassment from my associate mentor after law school (leading me not to take the firm's offer of permanent employment), come-ons from married colleagues, an an emotionally abusive boyfriend who inevitably turned physically abusive and the infidelity of my own husband, etc. My career and income potential suffered greatly.  All these things I have always stuffed away except in brief conversations with those closest to me

And even over the past 15-20 years, now, watching my own growing daughter experience the same -- comments about what she wears, boys touching girls unwanted at school, friends of hers in HS confiding about rape, health ed class that reinforces negative sexual stereotypes about girls and boys....

So, yes, your first paragraph is a pretty spot on description of my life, and I don't think I'm any different than other women.  It has permanently affected me.  I'm exhausted and have basically withdrawn from life both professionally and personally.

I'm glad all of this is coming out, and I'm glad to see heads roll.  But, the whole thing has made me tremendously sad to see the waste of human female life - all that we wanted to di that was threarted by a man with a p$&#s - all the plays, movies, articles we could have written or directed, all the cases we could have taken, the governance or policy we could have done or even just the hotel rooms we could have cleaned in peace and restaurant meals we could ah e made and served -- all thwarted in the pursuit of meaningless sex.  It seems like such a waste of human imagination and effort. [/quote]

Woe is me...[/quote]

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