Every Woman I Know Has Had That Ariana Grande Moment (watoday.com.au)

Former Member 9/9/189:13 AM

I don't know a single woman who hasn't experienced the panic of being fondled in public. By a relative, a subway passenger, a colleague at a Christmas party.

You walk away wondering, "Did that just happen? Maybe he didn't realize that was my breast. Maybe he didn't realize he was squeezing it. I shouldn't have let him hug me."

You walk away - I walk away - feeling small and dirty and alone.

This casual harassment, of faint boundaries tested and crossed, is what keeps society blind to the greater abuses at play. It is what gaslights women and the people around them into thinking that they imagined the offense.

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Yup, Ruth, when I saw the way the pastor behaved at the funeral I internally cringed. It stirred up memories of my own experiences while growing up particularly in family settings and as a young girl, I felt dirty and violated.

It is important that this couvert kind of sexual abuse is highlighted so that the next generation does not just grin and bear with it.

9/9/188:23 PM

Ruth A RondonMember

"gas lights women to think it was imagined." This nails it. Thank you for this explicit explanation. Naming is powerful. Gaslighting and imagine are words that describe "dance around the elephant in the room". Naming it nails it and puts it out there; squashing the dance, the imagine and galslighting.

9/9/1811:22 AM

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