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sheshe2

(83,771 posts)
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 08:32 PM Oct 2016

Watch Women Explain Why Trump’s Comments Are More Than ‘Just Words’

It happens every day.”

 10/18/2016 04:02 pm ET | Updated 3 hours ago

The video features dozens of women, including celebrities like Rose McGowan and Amber Tamblyn, describing a time they were sexually harassed or assaulted by men. Each woman has a story of verbal harassment to go along with the sexual assault she’s experienced.

Their riveting testimonies remind viewers that Trump’s “locker room banter” is anything but “just words.”

Warning: tories in the below video may be triggering to some readers.



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“I think people like Donald Trump will never understand the correlation that women understand between words and actions,” Tamblyn ― who’s been an outspoken advocate for sexual assault survivors ― says. “Especially when you’re a man in a position of power and you talk that way publicly and you say those things. You are telling the world, you are telling everyone, that it’s OK to behave that way.”

As one woman says in the video in response to Trump’s “grab ‘em by the pussy” comments: “It’s not ‘just words,’ it happens every day. It’s happened to me more times than I can count.”

“After the release of the Trump Access Hollywood tapes, I felt it was important to share the OTHER side of the story ― stories of women being objectified, kissed, groped, and humiliated by the words and actions of others. These words and actions have a huge effect on women’s lives. And we are here to say, together, in one loud voice, that this is NOT OKAY.”












More:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/watch-women-explain-why-trumps-comments-are-more-than-just-words_us_58065ba6e4b0180a36e6a354?section=&

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It is not okay.



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Watch Women Explain Why Trump’s Comments Are More Than ‘Just Words’ (Original Post) sheshe2 Oct 2016 OP
SMH sheshe2 Oct 2016 #1
Thank you, she! Cha Oct 2016 #2
thanks sheshe2 Oct 2016 #3
K&R! betsuni Oct 2016 #4
Thanks betsuni. sheshe2 Oct 2016 #5
Watching that, I had a flashback to the first time it really sunk in that boys and girls are treated betsuni Oct 2016 #6

betsuni

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6. Watching that, I had a flashback to the first time it really sunk in that boys and girls are treated
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 05:18 AM
Oct 2016

differently. I was sitting in English class, reading, when the boy in front of me turned around and loudly said, "You're in the seventh grade and STILL flat-chested?" while shaking his head, disgusted. I was totally shocked. Ironically, from the age of seventeen I started wearing minimizer bras and loose tops and layers to hide my breasts so as not to be constantly catcalled, to feel safer in public, to not be assumed an idiot because of my figure.

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