Ella

I’m only a high-schooler and am lucky enough to have faced very little sexism that’s targeted at me, but there was an incident when I was in the eighth grade. An adult male neighbor of mine(either very drunk or on his way to getting very drunk) started making jokes about me having sex with his son. His son is a year younger than me, and we barely interact. As far as I know, there was no reason for him to think that I, a thirteen-year-old, was having sex with his son, a twelve-year-old I barely know. He then went on to say he was just kidding, because we “have the me-too movement now.” His tone was hardly complimentary of the me-too movement. I didn’t actually realize that this was in any way insulting until I told my family about the incident, I just assumed that he was being stupid and my discomfort was irrational.