Thread: This Weinstein business has got me thinking about my own experience of, as Emma Thompson’s mum would call it, ‘pestering.’
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This is not an industry thing for me. I’ve been fairly lucky in that regard (and lots haven’t.) It’s a woman in the world thing.
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Like, sadly most women, I’ve been followed, catcalled, groped, threatened, and generally made to feel unsafe at times.
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What sticks with me most are the boys at one school I went to who would routinely grab the arses of girls in the lunch queue.
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They’d do it when we were vulnerable. Our hands carrying trays. If we dropped the tray the room would erupt with banging tables.
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I remember the hot, stinging humiliation. Like I’d been targeted for a joke because I wasn’t pretty or cool. Because I was ‘a bit weird.’
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It was a game to those sniggering Neanderthals. No one did anything to stop them. Most of us were just trying to get by. Survive.
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That's awful :( It really sucks that certain social norms teach young people this kind of stuff is ok. It's not and never was
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