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In reply to the discussion: question for our female readers: how many times have you felt sexually harassed ? [View all]womanofthehills
(8,819 posts)drilled, and on my best friends breast too. We would go to the dentist on our way home from middle school. This same friend and I also encountered the car masturbator asking us for directions.
The work experiences were bad- asked to go into their office and then grouped. Another job was at an add agency and I was asked by the boss to get something in the darkroom and then groped. The next day he told me he did not feel i had the same vision as the company and fired me. All these guys were married and I had met all their wives. And, it wasn't like you were even sweet talked first - they just fucking grabbed. On a job interview, as soon as the guys secretary walked out the door, he lunged for me and I literally had to run around a huge desk twice and out the door. I missed out on another job because after the interview, I refused to get into his van made into a bedroom. Date rape - where I was pined to the ground and he said we could stay there all night until I agreed to have sex. So would you call it consensual date rape?
The one that sickens me the most is my own cousin. It was Thanksgiving and we were about 18 and asked by the family to go get something at the store. On the way back, he pulls his car over and "pulls it out" - just like the Seinfeld episode.
and there's way more - like the guy masturbating on the side of a rural road after tail gating me, the older professor who seduced me by becoming my mentor and I can't leave out the Catholic priest in the confessional. I was 13 and our parents would drop us off at the movie theater and we would pair up with boys. I had popcorn and the boy reached across for some popcorn and brushed my breast. As a good Catholic girl I thought i better confess that he touched my breast. So, in the confessional, the priest then asks me - "Did he touch you above your blouse or under your blouse" and "Did he touch you above your skirt or under your skirt" - Needless to say, I was only 13 but I was smart enough to never go to confession again.