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In reply to the discussion: Joe Biden: the 2016 HBO movie, Confirmation, about the 1991 Hill/Thomas hearings, will hurt him [View all]MuseRider
(35,172 posts)all had similar experiences. Some worse and some not as bad but what they did to us as a result was exactly the same. Short of rape, which has many other repercussions to consider, I believe we all came away knowing in some way that we were less than we thought we were. Not to us but to the rest of the world. It made me cautious for a long, long time. After that I just did not give a damn and told each of them off as the issues arrived. Screw that, 40+years of feeling less than a full human was plenty thank you.
I was so jealous of the women who were never cowed by it. I was raised to be that second class citizen so I already knew where the back seat that belonged to me was. It took a while but I got out of it.
That entire mess made me angry and it made me feel dirty like my entire roll in life was for some guy, any guy, to use me for his sexual innuendos at the least. After all, it did not matter for a SCOTUS member to behave like that why would anyone else not do the same?