Did your mom also give you a speech about how virgins can’t use tampons? Mine did, and then berated me in front of my brother and his friends when she found a box of tampons in my bathroom. One of the boys actually stood up in the middle of it and said, “um, excuse me, but that’s not true. We learned about it in…

It’s the dude rejection defense mechanism. Like when some guy catcalls you on the street and you ignore him and then he follows up with “You aren’t that cute anyway!”

Oh my mom wasn’t nearly this bad, but yeah. #asianmoms. (When I started my period at 13, the entirety of ‘you’re a woman now’ talk was, her staring at me in the rearview mirror and saying, “Now you can get pregnant. Don’t get pregnant.”) There was a whole bunch of fuckery I lived through, though, but laughing with…

I’m actually not Asian, but several of my best friends growing up are (one Japanese and Native Hawaiian, one Korean, one Vietnamese, and one Chinese) so I TOTALLY get what you mean.

There’s a barber shop next to my office and these dudes stand outside all day and catcall women. I have been so tempted to say something to the owner, but am pretty sure it won’t do anything.

I really hope that is true. It is so striking to hear other women’s stories, and it makes me wish that we would talk about this more so that we could draw strength from each other.

I’m sorry this happened to you. This past week, I remembered being harassed on my first job over 2 years ago. My aunts are in their 80s and each of them is remembering being assaulted in these ways when they were in their teens. I hope all this reawakened trauma can lead to some transformative conversations instead…

I’m truly sorry sorry you went through that. I can’t imagine the rationalizations your brain went through just to keep you sane. My heart goes out to you.

You bring up what are to me the two worst versions of gaslighting, because they deny the SA through insulting the victim, and by implicating the victim, respectively. I’m sorry if anyone ever used these abusive psychological tactics on you.

It seems like so often abusers are in a position of relative power. Similarly, I’m much more nervous about people whom I know slightly than total strangers, because it seems like acquaintances are more likely to harm us than almost anyone else.

I was a very overweight, pale as a sheet of paper, very awkward teenager with a terrible haircut and mousy hair color and I was groped at and cat called all the time. It really got to me and I started dressing in pants and mens shirts all the time to cover up and I still got hit on.

I am sorry this happened to you.

This needs to be talked about more. I was sexually assaulted when I was 19. I was at a big restaurant with my friends watching the Stanley Cup finals, and my team won. Everyone was thrilled: jumping, hugging, etc. An older man came up and hugged me. As he had me there, he grabbed me forcefully between my legs, and…

Yes, Donald Trump has serially sexually assaulted women and bragged about it. But Hillary Clinton HAS A VAGINA. Nothing Trump could do could be as shameful as that.

I am so sorry this happened to you. It’s extra awful when the abuser is in a position of trust like that.

It will never end. His ongoing rhetoric regarding a revolution is going to propel us into fucking chaos. It is going to take us years to heal and the “war” hasn’t even started yet. If we are able to win over some Republican seats in Congress this fall, it might not be so bad but who knows?

I hope people everywhere discuss how this is a typical response and how horrible it is. I wasn’t an attractive young girl at all. I wore thick glasses, baggy clothes, no make up, no skirts, I barely combed my hair and I was sexually assaulted multiple times by strangers, by relatives, by “friends”, by a priest.

If it stops on 11/8, I will be thrilled. I have a sense that he’s going to be poisoning the system for a long time to come.

This seems to be his tactic whenever a woman challenges him. He called Megyn Kelly unattractive.

When Trump said he was going to stop holding back and implied he would start being even more of an asshole, I didn’t really think it was possible. I was wrong!