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- I was at fall festival in my town with some of my friends
and we were at this haunted house.
We were talking to the guys who worked there
before we went inside and I went in last
and one of the guys followed me in.
We got into this enclosed room and it was just the two of us
and he grabbed my arm and he pulled me into him
and tried to kiss me and I said I didn't want to,
I pushed him away, I was 13 at the time
and I found out after that that he was 19.
And that was the first time that I ever really
felt that somebody else felt entitled to my body.
- When I was 18 I was at a club dancing with my friend
and I was wearing a fedora which a guy used as an invitation
to come up to me, talk to me and then pick me up
by my butt and was having me just straddle him
and was dancing with me like that.
I was so scared I didn't know what to do
he was at least a foot taller than me.
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- He just went for a yes or listen to a no.
He just went for it and suddenly
he was groping me, kissing me.
I was laying there wondering if I was about to get raped.
- I was a freshman in high school
and a friend of mine came over,
and I think he assumed that because he was coming over,
that meant we were having sex
and he pushed himself on me.
He forced himself on me and I said, no, multiple times
and he just continued to try and try
and I kicked him out but he was a friend of mine.
- I started experiencing catcalling when I was 10.
I would be walking places alone sometimes
and men would say lewd things to me from their car.
I've always been outspoken
so I'd flip them off or tell them off
and I realized how dangerous that was for me
when a man actually followed me home
and threw trash at me the whole time
and that's the day I was silenced.
- Last year I was on the Metro
and I was wearing a Legalize Gay T-shirt
and when I got off of the Metro,
a man came up to me and looked me in the eyes
and said, "I'd still eat it".
And just his look and how he said it
was literally enough to break me down.
- I went to a high school that was up a hill,
by the time I got all the way up,
I'd be really tired and exhausted.
I had books on me
and there was a man that was walking down
and he walks right by me, he turns around,
grabs my butt really hard, lets go, walks away,
and I'm just there stuck, feeling powerless,
disgusted, and just ruined.
- I was walking down the street one day
and I noticed this man was following me in his car
and trying to get me to come in.
I ignored him but the pulled up in front of me
and then got out of his car and still tried to talk to me.
I started shouting at him and screaming at him
and he didn't seem to care.
It was almost like me saying no,
didn't make a difference to him.
- Don't-- - Touch--
- Anyone-- - Without asking.
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