#metoo

LLCC
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#metoo Oct 18, 2017 19:14:07 GMT 6herry likes this

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Post by LLCC on Oct 18, 2017 19:14:07 GMT

I learnt of #metoo today and thought it would be good to share with everyone here as I don’t know where else I would post it.

#metoo is for those who don’t know, a hashtag that has been adopted this week to say - I have also been sexually assault or harassment.

So here I state , #metoo

Bellatrix Winter Posts: 6,287	#metoo Oct 18, 2017 19:38:06 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Bellatrix on Oct 18, 2017 19:38:06 GMT Do you mean if you have been sexually assaulted or harassed you #metoo? Sorry to hear that LL, if that has happened to you..
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LLCC Winter Posts: 3,582	#metoo Oct 18, 2017 19:49:38 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by LLCC on Oct 18, 2017 19:49:38 GMT Exactly Bellatrix. I experienced several sexual assaults when I was young along with so many of my friends. I’m referring to the 70s and early 80s. #metoo means it happened to me

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#metoo Oct 18, 2017 20:12:49 GMT 6herry likes this

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Post by jax2 on Oct 18, 2017 20:12:49 GMT

I am sorry to hear that LL, it's true that those were very different days and women put up with all kinds of stuff that nowadays (thank goodness!) would not be tolerated .... you just have to watch old episodes of 'family shows' like 'On the Buses' to see the appalling attitudes towards women which were nothing out of the ordinary at the time (I remember hearing the phrase "she must be frigid" if a woman objected to unwanted approaches).

I have never been actually sexually assaulted, but I did have a very uncomfortable time with a piano teacher who was a friend of my parents and I never told them about because I knew it would upset them and it's only speaking to my sisters about it in the last year or two that i discovered they did not have the same issue, so I was clearly being treated differently by him (I persuaded my parents that I didn't have time to do the lessons any more because I had too much homework and got out of that way - I was about 12).

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#metoo Oct 18, 2017 21:52:21 GMT

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Post by 6herry on Oct 18, 2017 21:52:21 GMT

Sorry to hear it LL, I hope you have come to terms with it...

I came close to being molested when I was 12. I was way too young to understand what was going on, I knew he didn't want to steal from me, but I knew he was after something he shouldn't have.

I honestly didn't learn enough to know about 'it' until I was 14. The facts of life were not so freely available in my family.

I actually believed at 13, when asked by class mates, that I wasn't a virgin. I thought being a virgin involved being holy.

vwcamperfan Winter Posts: 2,555	#metoo Oct 19, 2017 7:12:20 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by vwcamperfan on Oct 19, 2017 7:12:20 GMT sadly #metoo

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#metoo Oct 19, 2017 13:17:54 GMT 6herry likes this

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Post by trisha on Oct 19, 2017 13:17:54 GMT

Goodness me, it's awful to see that so many of us have been affected. I do hope that you are all coping with your past. My love to you all xxx
Before hubs and I married we would take turns visiting each other at weekends, he would drive I travelled by train.
Before my train arrived at the station I would go and freshen up. One day I was pushed into the toilet by a young boy. He kept saying that he wanted to kiss a white girl. Fortunately he didn't lock the door. He had attempted it with another lady in my carriage and she had allerted the guard.
The young man was dragged along the aisle crying.
I was asked if I wanted to press charges, I didn't.
Needless to say I didn't use a train toilet again.

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LLCC
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#metoo Oct 19, 2017 20:43:25 GMT 6herry likes this

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Post by LLCC on Oct 19, 2017 20:43:25 GMT

Oct 18, 2017 21:52:21 GMT 6herry said:

Sorry to hear it LL, I hope you have come to terms with it...

I came close to being molested when I was 12. I was way too young to understand what was going on, I knew he didn't want to steal from me, but I knew he was after something he shouldn't have.

I honestly didn't learn enough to know about 'it' until I was 14. The facts of life were not so freely available in my family.

I actually believed at 13, when asked by class mates, that I wasn't a virgin. I thought being a virgin involved being holy.

Trisha, from what you’ve written and my understanding is that you too could put #metoo and Bellatrix too. If you’ve been put in an awkward position where you’ve felt uncomfortable in a sexual way then that’s a #metoo

I don’t spend time worrying over my experiences but I do worry about my daughters who both tell me that they have never experienced anything.

Jazzy Winter Jazzy Posts: 2,632	#metoo Oct 20, 2017 11:13:19 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jazzy on Oct 20, 2017 11:13:19 GMT metoo

linda Winter Posts: 2,354	#metoo Oct 20, 2017 12:26:34 GMT 6herry likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by linda on Oct 20, 2017 12:26:34 GMT #metoo in 2007 (don't talk about it)
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Beckyboo Winter Posts: 856	#metoo Oct 21, 2017 19:30:07 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Beckyboo on Oct 21, 2017 19:30:07 GMT It's very sad that so many of us in our little group have had to endure this #metoo....