Is it just that I've been so conditioned as a female that my body is not my own/it's other people's property that a crotch grab would be humiliating or embarrassing, but I'd move on pretty quickly? Whereas if a bloke had his crotch grabbed, especially by another bloke, it's so unexpected that it could affect their whole mental health?
Is the reason that "crotch gets grabbed" has made the headlines mainly because it's a man making the accusation, whereas there needs to be many more women making an accusation to make it stick? And whilst, I'm sure the media is in hyper-drive because these are famous people, I feel that if an average woman was to be grabbed by an average man, it would just be brushed under the carpet...
Apologies if there's a thread on this already, but I can't get my head around it.
(And though I hope it doesn't need to be said, I'm not dismissing the severity of any act of sexual harassment or assault, I'm just wondering more about how conditioned society is regarding the different treatment of the sexes.)
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to not understand why a crotch grab would result in PTSD?
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BluePancakes · 09/11/2017 12:50
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