Me Too. - Comments

@ Ruby Salazar
thank you. i honestly don't know what i would've done now. probably punched or slapped them until they got the hell outta my way. lol

I'm so sorry you went through that love, god I so would've lost my shit. Wooow.

It was 9 years ago I think. I’m pretty sure her and the guy broke up not too long after that, but I don’t think it had anything to do with what happened.

@ Nereid
I posted the “me too” thing on Facebook. A couple here and there posted comments, but nothing serious. It’s funny how a photo of me and my boyfriend an get 50+ likes, but a serious post about sexual harassment/assault only gets 13.

@ Hannahdoll
Oh my god. That’s awful. I’m so sorry that that happened and that your friend has to deal with that. I hope the boyfriend kicked his friend’s ass! And dropped him as a friend! But I feel like I’m wrong... I’m guessing he told the boyfriend she came on to him. Because if this were a movie, that’s exactly what would happen.

I have had gross things said to me, but nothing physical ever done like that but my best friend got raped. She was with her boyfriend at his friend’s house. They were drinking and I guess she got sick so she went upstairs to lay down and the friend raped her. I remember the day she called me bawling her eyes out. I didn’t drive at that point so my mom and I both actually went with her to file the police report and take her to the hospital. I don’t think she told her mom until a few months later, but it was ridiculous how the cops acted....how everyone acted. I will never forget waiting in the hospital for hours for them to do a rape kit on her and holding her as she cried. Seeing someone you care about go through something like that and there’s nothing you can really do just sucks..

Holy crap, I just finished reading what your friend posted. No one should have to deal with that, and the fact that it's repeated over and over shows that this is an issue with society, not with the odd outlier. Really makes me hate the world reading things like that :(

@ gatesguardian.
I hope things change too. Progress is slowly being made, and like you said, it comes from educating the next generations about these issues.

I'll certainly check it out! I understand your hesitance to post on Facebook. A few people I knew were putting "me too" statuses but even though I've experienced sexual harassment, I really don't want to make it public. I've never spoken to my mum about it and I don't think I ever will, so posting it on Facebook is something I'd rather not too.

@ Nereid
Thank you so much!

You’re absolutely right. I hope that things change one day. And if I ever have kids, sons or daughters, that they know right from wrong and how to talk to me if something happens. Or at least someone they feel comfortable with.

I actually posted this blog because a girl I went to high school with posted an article about her experience with sexual assault/harassment. I didn’t publically post my blog, like on my Facebook or anything but maybe eventually I will. I’ll post a link to her article - it’s really good.

here it is.

@ gatesguardian.
At the time I think it's very hard to realise something is sexual harassment. We've been brought up in an society when it's so natural to dismiss victims of sexual assaults/harassment as liars, so we even do it to ourselves. It does sometimes take another person to point out the issue, because it's so normal to just dismiss it ourselves. That's why normalising discussing these issues is so important, so people who have been victim to sexual assault and harassment feel like they are capable of talking about it without being seen as liars or attention seekers.

It is awful to think back about, but it shows you're really strong in yourself, to be able to not let it affect you which I really admire.

@ Nereid
Thank you! It honestly never even occurred to me that it was sexual harrassment/assault until I was older and I was talking about it with a friend. That’s when I was like, “Holy crap...” At the time I just laughed it off and said it was funny. I made jokes that I saw “two dicks on Valentine’s Day.” And now I’m like... wow. I wish at the time that I would’ve had someone that I felt comfortable with to confide in. It makes me sad to think about it, only because I wonder how many girls they did that to and how many girls did it...

I'm so sorry that you went through that awful ordeal. So many girls have to deals with sexual harassment like this, and it's sick. The fact that not enough people take these situations seriously is dangerous, and it promotes this awful rape culture that only encourages more people to try these sort of things and get away with it.

I hope you're okay. Even though it happened a while ago, situations like that can still have lasting effects.

Thank you for being brave and sharing your story.

Me too.