Having a bad day.
What I wish I could say…
“Do I have a blinking neon light on my forehead that says ‘I want you!’”?
Did I give you some kind of subconcious inclination to approach me, ask for my number, look me up and down, call me baby or touch me?
No.
So lets learn something today… If [...]
Many people might be surprised to hear that one of my favorite movies about sexual harassment is Pretty Persuasion. It’s a very, very smart, extremely funny (not to mention raunchy) comedy that takes a swipe at pretty much all forms of discrimination. Like any good satire, it makes fun of a problem while highlighting [...]
The battle rages on between society & myself.
A couple of simple rules; like keep your hands to yourself.
The hierarchy of life & what I think it should be
Can you go AWOL if you aren’t in the army?
Wishing on stars hasn’t gotten me that far
It’s like drowning in a bottomless pit of tar.
Anticipating the gurgle, no [...]
I wrote this one night really late. I couldn’t sleep until I got it out of my head and onto paper. It has been four years since my sexual harassment experience and sometimes it feels like it just happened five minutes ago.
I Fell Asleep
I fell asleep on that day,
When the intrusion was made.
I didn’t stick [...]
This was submitted to the Stories forum, but it is really a great article on the long-terms effects of early harassment that so many girls experience. So, I’m also publishing it here. –Jennifer, SHS admin
During my junior year in high school I had learned through reading an article published in Cosmopolitan, that I had [...]
This was posted over at the stories site, but I thought it’s another one that should be highlighted.
Here is the story:
Cara, Arizona
One day in 5th grade there was a new student who immediately he took interest in me. He always flirted with one of my classmates and I. [...]
As this is the inaugural post of the new blog, (grin), it seemed most fitting to open things up with some comments about North Country, since many people are still somewhat abuzz about this since it opened last fall. I first saw the film during its opening weekend, but couldn’t really cough up anything particularly [...]