We are made to believe we somehow did something to cause it. Just the fact that we existed, and that we don’t have the right to own our own bodies. I was taught that girls are to be seen and not heard. We were not allowed to even speak loudly in class, but boys were given a full ticket to make whatever noise they want to. We were told that pretty much everything we wanted to do wasn’t ladylike. This story reminds of how they treated us. I was in elementary school in the 1960s. I hope it’s better for young girls now. We were told we weren’t good at science and math. I found out later I was really good at math (in my 30s) and got a computer science degree. I went into a “man’s job” in the military that women had never been in before (fixing electronics on aircraft). The assault was less there than it was when I got out into the civilian world. Because I was a mother with a child, I had to put up with it. It was “part of the man’s world” of working in computers. Even if you were a high level technical person. You were made to suppress your resistance. You had to feed your child. This whole thing has brought up a lot of anxiety in me that I need to deal with. Memories I need to let go of. But I always knew he was a fuckhead. A dirtbag. Every man I ever met who wanted to be smarter than me. And wasn’t. We have amazing minds, and I still don’t get how a woman could support him. But that’s their funeral. He’s crashing in the polls. And we are laughing at him. It feels like we’re laughing at all the men who did this to us. I have 3 very specific events of assault that I posted on the Twitter feed. That was extremely difficult. And one of them was a church deacon. Well holy shit. Guess why I don’t go to church anymore?