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In reply to the discussion: ?- is there a woman here at DU who has not experienced sexual violence? [View all]MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)I have a story of my own, 10 years old, and too frozen with fear to know what was going to happen next.
Unfortunately, a family "friend" (my mother newly widowed) was trusted to pick me up at the theater and drop me off home. All I remember thinking is how creepy was it to sit up front and not understand what was going on, which was eventual groping from my knees to just before my crotch. He never got there somehow.
And... I never said anything about it to my mom until adulthood!
It's rather strange that a young girl should have to suppress this reaction, but many do and I did. It's terrible that girls don't feel the need to speak for themselves. They become women who don't stand UP for themselves. I learned a lot from that time and from other ways of being challenged. There are good men, but when there are not good men, they have to be ostracized right the hell out of office and we have to start an anti-dumbing down crusade so that we quit producing more of them.
I'm not standing for any of this anymore. I has been is and promises to continuing being a war on women. I didn't survive and grow into a healthy adult so that I could sit back and freeze up again.
Thanks for letting me blow this shit off. It was the right time!