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GOP Senate Nominee (And Far Right Religious/Homophobic "Culture Warrior") Roy Moore Accused of Sexually Assaulting 14-Year Old Girl

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BlueGrl2111/09/2017 12:55:59 pm PST

re: #163 Flying Squirrel Girl

I’d wager that every woman in this thread has a harassment/assault story. Here’s mine:

When I was about 10 years old, my sister and I were walking home from school. A man drove past us, then a few minutes later passed us again. The second time he drove very slowly and as he passed us he threw a polaroid picture out the window at us. The picture was taken in the car, and it was a photo of his erect penis.

A couple years later we were walking to the pool at the Y with a friend. As we walked along a busy street facing oncoming traffic, a car slowed as it approached us. As the car drove past, a man’s arm shot out the window and grabbed my crotch.

When I was 19 I worked for a trucking company. The general manager was fired and in the interim someone from the corporate office came in to run things. He would frequently comment that I looked “stressed out” and would helpfully (/////) massage my shoulders. He started bringing me into his office and giving me projects that I could only work on with him. It wasn’t until one of my co-workers who was about 10 years older than me said, “You know you don’t have to let him touch you, right?” that I understood that I was being sexually harassed. I never confronted him but I avoided him and would twist away whenever he put his hands on me until he got the message and stopped.

My stories are so various and multiple it’s sickening to write down the list. First molestation was at 4 years old, had it happen by 4 different men over ages 4-10. Then I got a slight break as I outgrew one set of deviants, then it picked up again when i was 16. I stopped counting the inappropriate advances and touching. I was raped when I was younger. The last violent assault was at 43 years old. I am 45 now.

Age did not matter. Marital status did not matter. Job type did not matter. I used to think i had something about me that invited it. Now I know I’m not alone by any stretch of the imagination.

If you ask women to list all of the cases of “traditional” assault…let’s take molestation, physical assault (being forced up against walls, groped, held down against your will), and rape, the list would stagger you. If you add in verbal coercion, sexual harassment, casual ass-grabbings and people brushing up against you, people getting naked in front of you, naked photos you don’t want, man, pick your poison…you won’t find a woman that hasn’t experienced it.

I am glad so many people are coming forward now. This is not just the tip of the iceberg, it’s a seagull perched on the tip of an iceberg. There are a lot of really shitty people out there and they don’t limit themselves to one victim. They get away with it once and keep doing it.