Teen girls 'engulfed' in violence and trauma, CDC finds

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3. I'm in an all-women book group.

We're all pretty well-educated -- lower middle class to upper middle class in socioeconomic terms. Sometimes we talk about all the things males have done to us since we were about 10 or 11. It's not a big group, about seven core members, but at least two women were raped by men (one when she was 16). Everyone has at least a few stories of being grabbed, assaulted, street harassed, chased, stalked, etc. by males. We're all bloody sick of the male point of view dominating EVERYTHING, and in our own little protest we've decided to only read books by women authors.