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Ms. Toad

(38,703 posts)
41. Teenage?
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 10:37 PM
4 hrs ago

I was sexually harassed and assaulted 4 times before I was a teen. That I remember.

And nothing they could have told me would have helped me protect myself. One was my brother sneaking into my room at night (after I told my parents, I was permitted to lock my door at night), a second was within my parents' sight (but below the water line at the community pool with a friendly dive coach "showing me how to position my arms&quot , one was in the middle of a middle school class full of people, including the teacher, and the 4th was a bullying situation.

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Yup. I hear you. As a woman, I have my own stories. Joinfortmill 12 hrs ago #1
Same ananda 10 hrs ago #8
Me too. OMGWTF 10 hrs ago #18
WTF is wrong with men? Disaffected 10 hrs ago #22
Culture has just as much to do with it blubunyip 4 hrs ago #42
This leads to the nature or nurture debate. Disaffected 2 hrs ago #44
Prehistoric times? "Cave-man marriage"--- knock the woman over the head with a club, Jack Valentino 4 hrs ago #43
Same here. highplainsdem 9 hrs ago #26
It was prevalent throughout the sixties and seventies too. Arthur_Frain 12 hrs ago #2
This was ongoing from the 2920''s through the 1990's and likely beyond there. PCIntern 11 hrs ago #4
I'm sorry that happened to you. And also if it ruins someone's life it's not necessarily because they "let" it. WhiskeyGrinder 11 hrs ago #5
That's exactly what the "Me, Too" movement was trying to raise awareness of. Diamond_Dog 12 hrs ago #3
I never got that in fertility clinics Figarosmom 11 hrs ago #6
The most graphic testimony in the GJ report PCIntern 10 hrs ago #7
Assaulted by gay bashers? N/t Figarosmom 10 hrs ago #9
Oh no... PCIntern 10 hrs ago #10
I feel sick... AloeVera 9 hrs ago #27
Geez.. Figarosmom 6 hrs ago #37
Collection at home was an option we used to create my daughter Soul_of_Wit 9 hrs ago #24
I've always said that it's up to parents to inform their teenage children BEFORE it happens to them FakeNoose 10 hrs ago #11
Absolutely... PCIntern 10 hrs ago #12
And then there are those parents who are shit. usedtobedemgurl 10 hrs ago #16
That's ridiculous. AZ8theist 10 hrs ago #20
Thank you. usedtobedemgurl 10 hrs ago #21
You're welcome. AZ8theist 9 hrs ago #32
I'm an old lady now, but... Trueblue Texan 5 hrs ago #39
And sadly that is part of the problem Lifeafter70 9 hrs ago #33
And no matter the warnings, it can and does still happen. 1WorldHope 10 hrs ago #15
From the epstein files it sounds like many of the parents Figarosmom 5 hrs ago #38
Teenage? Ms. Toad 4 hrs ago #41
I still have a vivid memory of a friend and I being accosted by some creep Disaffected 2 hrs ago #45
Twice, in the 60s, adult males tried lure me within their reach. enigmania 10 hrs ago #13
So, is this an American thing? Is it a European thing 1WorldHope 10 hrs ago #14
Pedophilia knows no borders.. whathehell 9 hrs ago #29
It turns out that Grimm's fairy tales had a real purpose it seems. 1WorldHope 9 hrs ago #31
It is a human thing. Disaffected 2 hrs ago #46
If they Rebl2 10 hrs ago #17
Pretty revolting, isn't it? PCIntern 10 hrs ago #19
Exactly MustLoveBeagles 9 hrs ago #23
Report them MorbidButterflyTat 9 hrs ago #25
And they're helping those freak f*cks have children! Trueblue Texan 5 hrs ago #40
This exists and always existed because it has been allowed to exist Bluestocking 9 hrs ago #28
For many years I taught women's self defense oberle 9 hrs ago #30
"which include Boy Scout and Girl Scout publications" ??? progressoid 9 hrs ago #34
Re fertility clinics Tasmanian Devil 8 hrs ago #35
References? PCIntern 8 hrs ago #36
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