I wrote an Op-Ed for @nytimes about something terrible that happened to me in my youth, something that happens to young women every day. We all have an opportunity to change the narrative and believe survivors.https://nyti.ms/2DvLAox
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Spent a lot of time over the years at that mall (down the street from both my brother and my parents).
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Yeah I know what you mean. Unfortunately I know a lot of women (probably more than I even know because they don’t discuss it) but thinking of being a teenager makes me wonder how many Padmas I knew as a teenager and how did they live with that pain?
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I teach high school. Believe me. I get it.
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I can totally get that. My sister is 11 months younger than me, so when I see this stuff happen to teenagers, I can’t help but seeing a high school version of my sister in them.
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Yeah, and I have a daughter about to start high school next year. Don't think it won't cross my mind a few hundred times.
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The part of the story that really got me was that she was sent to live with her grandparents for having the temerity to report being molested by an adult family member. Just...revolting and sad.
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That part infuriated and enraged me. when a friend was assaulted and she told me about it, it filled me with overwhelming heartache but afterward I thought “if I feel this secondhand, how the hell must she feel?” It made me think how much as a guy I don’t need to consider.
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