{"id":7780,"date":"2014-05-28T21:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T01:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=7780"},"modified":"2014-05-28T21:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T01:34:52","slug":"yesallwomen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/28\/yesallwomen\/","title":{"rendered":"#YesAllWomen"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote this<\/a> is 2010, after a man, who had found me on a dating website, “done some recon”, and started reading my blog, made a sexual comment on a post. Here it is, excerpted and slightly edited for clarity:<\/p>\n

I think every woman has had some experience where she has felt sexually threatened\u2014it puts us on edge. It makes us more sensitive to the next comment, touch, sound, movement.<\/p>\n

The son of my music teacher, when we were both about 9 or 10 and waiting in the car while his mom ran into the grocery store, started poking me in the chest and, when I covered myself, poked me between my legs. When I protected that part of me, he\u2019d move back to the top. I kept telling him to stop. He laughed. I didn\u2019t tell anyone that until a few\u00a0years ago, when all of a sudden, it bubbled up and spilled out in a deluge of tears.<\/p>\n

Guys groped me practically every day in the Mexico City subway when I lived there. One\u00a0pinche cabr\u00f3n<\/em>\u00a0came up behind me, stuck his hands down the sides of my overalls into the front of my underpants.<\/p>\n

In 2002, in a crowded NYC number 6 train, a young man pressed his hard-on up against my ass and started breathing in my ear. I was pinned up against the door and couldn\u2019t move.<\/p>\n

In 2009, a dude followed me, jerking off, as I was hiking Occoneechee Mountain with my dogs.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more, but I\u2019ll stop. And I won\u2019t even bother enumerating the verbal assaults I\u2019ve received, though they are often no less scary.<\/p>\n

My response, as an adult, to these experiences is to scream things like, \u201cWHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? YOU\u2019RE FUCKING SICK!\u201d Except on the 6 train. Get this: I could see his reflection in the window, and I was pretty sure I had met the guy. I don\u2019t know why that made me feel even more powerless, but it did. I just evacuated the car at the first possible moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote this is 2010, after a man, who had found me on a dating website, “done some recon”, and started reading my blog, made a sexual comment on a post. Here it is, excerpted and slightly edited for clarity: I think every woman has had some experience where she has felt sexually threatened\u2014it puts … Continue reading #YesAllWomen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-7780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-yes-all-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7781,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780\/revisions\/7781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}