Interesting to see some guys speaking up about their own experiences here. As a guy I've been harassed on a couple of occasions. I was pretty young then but once in crowded place and once when too drunk to even form a coherent word I was groped inappropriately by (I'm 99% sure) women. At the time I didn't think much of it, maybe even convinced myself it was cool initially because that's the kind of thing your friends would fist bump you for. But in retrospect I realized just how not cool that was. One was particularly bothersome reflecting on it because I think it was someone I knew, but who I'd just treated as a platonic friend for as long as we knew each other. They essentially took advantage of me being in a vulnerable position thinking I was too far gone to notice, but I did & just didn't have the wherewithal to protect myself or say no.
Can't imagine those sort of things being a semi-regular occurrence, which it appears to be for a number of women.
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