It's started. (HOF thread)

[Squinch]

13. What I find so sad is that both you and I,

when we were flashed at that young age, had already been socialized to keep it a secret, to not say anything about it. I was with two friends when someone cut us off on a path in a woods and flashed us and tried to catch us. We scattered, and we were all fine, but there was no question among us that we would tell anyone. We never even discussed that possibility, even though we discussed the incident.

For myself, I knew the consequences of telling would be just too uncomfortable. Like you, I was too embarrassed. You and I both had somehow gotten the very clear message that having this done to us was something WE needed to take responsibility for by being embarrassed. For something that had been done to us against our will!.

That is what horrifies me.

And ours were such relatively minor incidents.

Imagine what these girls go through who are actually assaulted...