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Equinox Moon

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13. Yes! Your list is a reflection of reality for women.

Reply to mercuryblues (Original post)

Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:13 PM

Sep 2018

Let the flood gates open. Times Up!

I predict we see more and more reporting from long ago, and then we progress to reporting immediately after an assault.
The final stage will be sexual assault is a rare thing. This is what I predict.

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I've listened to the stories of [View all] mercuryblues Sep 2018 OP

K&R Solly Mack Sep 2018 #1

The reason people don't know is because women don't talk about it lunatica Sep 2018 #2

So true. I thought I was a rarity. Now I see...it's so common! Honeycombe8 Sep 2018 #6

Which is why I made the mercuryblues Sep 2018 #15

"Together we are powerful." YES! November comes. nt Honeycombe8 Sep 2018 #17

We can only hope that this horrible oppression will end with our generation. I know that women of japple Sep 2018 #7

What a wonderful quote. Honeycombe8 Sep 2018 #18

Anybody who has not heard of sexual abuse told to them firsthand is in a hole too deep in the ground Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2018 #3

K&R betsuni Sep 2018 #4

I heard one in three women are/have been sexually assaulted. BigmanPigman Sep 2018 #5

Interesting question. And how many of the female Senators had had a similar experience? Honeycombe8 Sep 2018 #9

I read of one woman rep who acknowledged that she is a survivor today in fact! BigmanPigman Sep 2018 #11

Before I read your post, I was sitting here thinking about how clean and safe my place felt. Blue_true Sep 2018 #8

Make it a solid month lunatica Sep 2018 #10

I would be happy mercuryblues Sep 2018 #12

As I was watching Kavanaugh's sturm und drang about how offended and violated he feels calimary Sep 2018 #16

Yes! Your list is a reflection of reality for women. Equinox Moon Sep 2018 #13

I had a coworker who was abducted and brutally raped. LisaM Sep 2018 #14