10 Things People [Mostly Men] Are Saying To Rationalize Sexual Harassment & Assault

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I’ll talk about this in the locker room…

I was getting ready to have this discussion with a couple of men in a room full of both men and women. I was making a point about what our grandmothers and foremothers must have endured that they never talked about. And that’s when a man said, “Well, our grandmothers dressed much more…You know what I’ll save it for the locker room.” I can only imagine that he was going to say that because our grandmothers dressed more modestly, they weren’t subject to this type of treatment. I know that’s a lie. In fact, I’m sure it was much worse. The only difference between this generation and the ones before it is that now there are actual laws prohibiting this behavior and women of this generation are increasingly empowered to step forward and say something. Not to mention, Billy Bush got caught up simply laughing at some locker room chatter and it ended up costing him his job. Now is the time for y’all to listen more than anything else.