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We do need more enforceable laws, we need to have this stopped. We need men to stop protecting one another and we need a huge change in attitude.It makes me feel ill just writing this kind of post. I keep thinking that nothing has improved and it is getting worse for generations of children and women to come. That is soul-destroying.
And men need to be called out when they insist that guys who do this kind of thing are just kidding around, or just being friendly, and that women really like it.
Sometimes I wonder if men and boys are getting more vicious overall, that it's a reaction to the rising social status of women and women's greater prominence in public life.
Maybe some men and boys do act out because they resent women's "encroachment" on what they consider to be their own turf, but this kind of thing is nothing new. My mom was sexually assaulted by some boys when she was a pre-adolescent. They threatened to "get" her brother if she told (he was being bullied a lot by his peers at that point), so she never did.
She never defined what happened as sexual assault. Back then it was just boys being boys and maybe getting too carried away. And anyway, what was she doing, playing in that vacant lot after school? The boys might have gotten "in trouble" if someone found out, but no one would have defined such behavior as "sick," or even particularly aberrant.
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