Nearly 90 per cent of young women in US have experienced sexual harassment, report finds

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39. I'm more amazed by it almost daily even now.

It wasn't until very recently that I learned, for instance, that even young (tween) girls are subjected to frequent unwanted attention by adult males, and that they're fully aware of it as it happens. Skeevy and horrifying and, in retrospect, I shouldn't be surprised.

I was in my 20s before I started to become how pervasive it is, and I can't pretend to have been entirely blameless prior to that time. It was a different era, to be sure, but in retrospect I don't accept that as an excuse. I never assaulted anyone or anything at that level, but I had moments of boorishness that make now-me want to kick then-me's ass.

I have benefited hugely from several strong women rhetorically smacking me upside the head over the years, without whose influence I would have been much slower to open my eyes.