I want to ask you to do something. Go home and talk to your wife. Call your sister. Go visit your mother. Sit down and talk with your daughters.
Ask them, Has any guy ever grabbed you uninvited? Who? When? What did you do? Were you scared? How did it make you feel? How many times has something like this happened to you?
Has any guy ever kissed you uninvited? As you tried to shove him away? As you wished one of your friends was nearby to help you get away from him? Was there anyone who helped you get away from him?
Has any guy ever said anything like this to you? How long has it been since that happened? A year? A month? A day? An hour? How many times would you say in a month that someone said something like this to you?
How many men come onto you, knowing you’re married? How many feel entitled to touch you any way they want? To say anything to you they want?
I know not all guys act this way. I know there are great guys in the world. But even the great ones … I wonder if you’ve ever asked the women in your life how often this sort of thing has happened to her. I fear you’ll be furious when you know. That you’ll be sick.
I wonder how many of you have stopped this sort of thing from happening to another girl or woman? How many of you have stopped a guy from saying things like this about a woman? How many of you have talked to your brothers and your sons about things like this?
Just hoping to start a lot of conversations.
It made me realize I’ve talked with my son and daughter about few things creepy guys did to me when I was younger. But not everything. I’m sure I talked to my husband at some point about some of it, but not all of it.
Maybe we can use this point in time given to us by Trump to start a big, national conversation.
I’m asking you, after you have your talk with the women in your life, tell your guy friends what you did and what you heard. Ask them to do the same thing. Ask them how they’d feel if someone did or said what Trump did about their wives, their daughters, their mothers, their sisters, because chances are, someone has. Probably a lot of someones.
I invite you all in the comments to tell us the most disgusting, scariest thing a guy has ever done to you against your will. Or to a woman you love.