I was walking outside during winter, wearing a dress and bare legs; I had no tights left at home and I went to buy some because it was cold – the store was only a minute walk from my home. while I was walking, an older man (with his wife!) made a nasty remark: “mmm, nice legs” and went on with his day. I was walking to a party with a friend of mine, when a man approached us; he grabbed my ass, and when I asked him to stop and told him ‘no’, he said “but you have a nice ass anyways”. I was at another party, and a person I vaguely knew and did not even talk to, kept on touching me – I said ‘no’ plenty of times. he stopped touching me the minute I said that I had a boyfriend (which was a lie) – he respected my ‘boyfriend’ more than he respected me. I once went to the dermatologist for my acne, and one consultation he kept saying “well, you have skin that’s sensitive to hormones, but that’s good! you’ll have no problem getting pregnant when you’re older”. he repeated this a couple of times. a lot of things like this happened in my life, and I didn’t really thing much of it – I felt uncomfortable and violated, but I also felt guilty for walking outside with bare legs, for maybe “asking for it”… I normalized all of it, thinking that there are worse things that could happen, while we should NEVER normalize things like this. never.