Michelle

I have had numerous displeasant encounters with sexism, only a few had made me cry. The first of these experiences ocured when I was about 13, there was a dancing presentation in which i had me to wear a skirt. Everything went well until recess came, I used to sit alone, this time about seven guys aproached me and said really awful things to me they were groping my legs and trying to dance close to me in a sexual maner, wile I was still sitting! I tryed to defend myself, nobody cared until I started crying hard. It went that way for a wile. When it was over only a girl cared and tryed to confort me . Everything happened in less than five meters of the pincipals’ officce. The guys were never punished and I was ashamed to talk to my mother. At that time I didn’t understand any of it. why did I feel so powerless? Why they didn’t take my threat seriusly? and why was I forced to wear something so uncomfortable in a semy-public space? but, over all, why every one pretended like there was nothing happening?