Every woman who can remember from childhood (3 yers old to now) please raise your hand if

[joetheman]

NONE of what follows happened to you:

sexual assault by a family member
sexual assault by a family friend
rape by a family member
rape by a family friend
sexual assault by a church member or elder
rape by a church member or elderberry
sexual assault by clergy
rape by clergy
sexual assault by a teacher
rape by a teacher
sexual assault by a sports coach
rape by a sports coach
sexual assault by a schoolmate
rape by a schoolmate
sexual assault by a workplace superior
rape by workplace superior

Just making a point to my cousin in Texas and not raising my hand.

[XanaDUer2]

1. I've been very fortunate

this stuff happens more, I think, than realized

[blueinredohio]

16. I've been fortunate too.

Nothing like this ever happened to me. I was never the cute little girl but I also have a mouth on me.

[Ms. Toad]

24. Rape and sexual assault have nothing to do with being cute. n/t

[LakeArenal]

2. I can raise my hand

[Ocelot II]

3. Raising my hand.

A fair amount of workplace sexual harassment and discrimination short of physical contact, though.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. I wish

I was assaulted...grabbed in a sexual manner without my consent...by a co-worker who was my superior. I told him in no uncertain terms to "get his hands off me". Two weeks later I was fired for "failure to get along with co-workers." Pretty sure he had something to do with it.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Raised my hand. And adding assault by perfect stranger.

[spooky3]

7. and someone you were dating.

This is one of the most common incidences.

[Dream Girl]

15. Yes that happened to me.

[multigraincracker]

6. How many guys are too ashamed to

raise their hand. Happens way more than one may think. So,can that make the hurt worse?

[MuseRider]

8. Makes me sad to read that list.

I cannot raise my hand but I am thankfully able to say I was never raped. I was also not one to put up with a lot of that crap either so....I was lucky.

[Dream Girl]

14. This is so wrong.. You can be raped even if you're " one who doesn't put up with crap".

This is close to blaming the victim. “ she should have fought back/ been more forceful/said no”.

[spooky3]

17. +1

[MuseRider]

20. Way to take this totally wrong.

I would never do that and maybe you should think about what you say to someone you do not know.

[wryter2000]

9. My rape was by a stranger (raising my hand)

Other bad experiences were with acquaintances, dates, and coworkers.

[milestogo]

21. Ditto.

[Freddie]

10. Groped by college professor

Who went on to become a department head with many honors, distinguished career (retired now). And if I’d said something back then (1976) I’d immediately get blamed for wearing a tight sweater. So it actually never occurred to me to tell anyone til recently, not that it will do any good.

[catrose]

12. No hand raises here

[if..fish..had..wings]

13. Hand held up

Head hung down

[liberalhistorian]

18. I'm 56 and I cannot

raise my hand, unfortunately. Nor can more than half of the women I know or have known, and those are just the ones who've spoken about or reported it. I suspect there are many more who've kept it to themselves or just a few people.

[Bettie]

23. Most women I know have

had at least one of these happen to them.

I'm 55.

[demigoddess]

19. raise my hand

once propositioned by a mental health doctor who said, that the only reason I was depressed was because I never had really good sex like he could show me.
also molested at age 3 by boys in a day care.
almost every woman I have known has told me a story like this. The first one I heard was from a friend when we were in 7th grade.

[demtenjeep]

22. brother in law

of my late sister molested my 8 year old sister and 10 year old myself

[deek]

25. nope n/t

/

[Raine]

26. Raising hand, nothing on that list happened. nt

[Bluesaph]

27. Raise my hand three timed

By priest
By teacher
By stranger

[Sunsky]

30. It says

raise your hand if those situations don't apply to you.

[Bluesaph]

28. Raise my hand three timed

By priest
By teacher
By stranger

[Sunsky]

29. Sadly I can't

[myccrider]

31. Harassment yes, physical assault no

I’ve been lucky.

I’ve known other women who weren’t so lucky. Back in my younger years, friends of mine, a lesbian couple, were assaulted and raped in their home by a knife wielding creep who was going to un-gay them with manly man sex. Disgusting and traumatizing.