Women Share Stories Of Sexual Assault To Show Trump What Rape Culture Looks Like

WASHINGTON ― In the hours since explicit footage leaked of Donald Trump bragging in 2005 that he could “grab” women “by the pussy” because he was famous, women have been sharing their own sexual assault stories on social media to underscore the heinousness of Trump’s admissions ― and the widespread culture of violence against women to which they contribute.

Canadian author Kelly Oxford started a Twitter thread Friday night in which she encouraged women to reply with the first time they were ever sexually abused, to show that “they aren’t just stats.”

“I’ll go first,” Oxford tweeted. “Old man on city bus grabs my ‘pussy’ and smiles at me, I’m 12.”

Thousands of women ― Oxford counted two per second ― replied to her prompt with stories of being groped or otherwise assaulted men, in many cases older or more powerful than they were.

“Soccer coach discretely groped my boobs while demonstrating how not to block someone in gym class,” writer Kate Spencer tweeted. “I was 13.”

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