Anecdotally, I don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been at least sexually assaulted, so yeah, there’s a lot of it. Many of us wouldn’t be counted in statistics because we never reported it or it was “just” assault (the guy who tried to rape me didn’t succeed because my sister came looking for me, caught him taking my pants off while I was unconscious, and beat him with a shoe until he left, so I always told myself nothing really happened). So yeah, rapists are way more common than we probably think, and they’re out there raping away.
Yeah, it sounds like an absurd amount but when I stop and think about the women in my life almost all of them have been sexually assaulted at some point. And that’s just the ones that have felt comfortable enough to tell me about their experiences. It’s fucked up.
I told my husband I was one of the few lucky ones who didn’t have a Me Too story, until he pointed out the time in the club where a man shoved his hand down the back of my pants and tried to grope me and I grabbed his fingers and bent them back until he screamed like a bitch, and the time I was walking alone by the canal and a man chased me and I ran into a business and they had to lock the door to stop him getting in.
It’s so bad for women that these situations don’t feel like anything to complain about. Because nothing technically happened.
Oh yeah, the number of times men have groped me without consent is way higher, to the point that I probably don’t even remember all of them because it happens so often to so many women. You just sort of move on because what else can you do? Well, nearly break their fingers, I guess (I’ve also done that).
Anecdotally, I don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been at least sexually assaulted, so yeah, there’s a lot of it. Many of us wouldn’t be counted in statistics because we never reported it or it was “just” assault (the guy who tried to rape me didn’t succeed because my sister came looking for me, caught him taking my pants off while I was unconscious, and beat him with a shoe until he left, so I always told myself nothing really happened). So yeah, rapists are way more common than we probably think, and they’re out there raping away.
Me Too showed me that what you are saying is true. It is also how I found out that my sisters and aunt had such experiences in their lives.
Yeah, it sounds like an absurd amount but when I stop and think about the women in my life almost all of them have been sexually assaulted at some point. And that’s just the ones that have felt comfortable enough to tell me about their experiences. It’s fucked up.
I told my husband I was one of the few lucky ones who didn’t have a Me Too story, until he pointed out the time in the club where a man shoved his hand down the back of my pants and tried to grope me and I grabbed his fingers and bent them back until he screamed like a bitch, and the time I was walking alone by the canal and a man chased me and I ran into a business and they had to lock the door to stop him getting in.
It’s so bad for women that these situations don’t feel like anything to complain about. Because nothing technically happened.
Oh yeah, the number of times men have groped me without consent is way higher, to the point that I probably don’t even remember all of them because it happens so often to so many women. You just sort of move on because what else can you do? Well, nearly break their fingers, I guess (I’ve also done that).
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