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In reply to the discussion: I wish to state something about sex crimes: [View all]AZ8theist
(7,440 posts)32. You're welcome.
You deserved better. No one should have to experience that horror at 15, or any other age for that matter. It's just not right.
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Imho, women can cut their losses by simply avoiding athletes. Some have taken
allegorical oracle
13 hrs ago
#49
Then there's the "nice guys," some wearing spectacles, smart, bookish, well-mannered...
Alice B.
10 hrs ago
#58
Prehistoric times? "Cave-man marriage"--- knock the woman over the head with a club,
Jack Valentino
23 hrs ago
#43
It was ongoing through all of history and pre-history. It just wasn't talked about. Or the victim was blamed.
raccoon
11 hrs ago
#55
I'm sorry that happened to you. And also if it ruins someone's life it's not necessarily because they "let" it.
WhiskeyGrinder
Yesterday
#5
That's exactly what the "Me, Too" movement was trying to raise awareness of.
Diamond_Dog
Yesterday
#3
I've always said that it's up to parents to inform their teenage children BEFORE it happens to them
FakeNoose
Yesterday
#11
I still have a vivid memory of a friend and I being accosted by some creep
Disaffected
21 hrs ago
#45
Since I was in high school (late 60s) I have wondered: Why do they teach boys wrestling, but not girls?
Attilatheblond
11 hrs ago
#52
Sex crimes against children and women are the dirtiest secrets in this nation. ...
marble falls
11 hrs ago
#51