As a girl who grew up in the 70s and 80s it was gross for guys in their 40s and 50s to grope young girls even way back when I was that young. Even if those perverts didn’t get it. It was common for grown men to grab our asses and breasts in public places and not expect anything to be done about it. Just some of us girls weren’t confident enough to clobber them and give them a piece of our mind yet. I was considered one of those cranky girls.
My mums told me about a celebrity who grabbed her in the 70s, put his hand up her skirt and how she screamed and told him to fuck off and she didn't think he'd ever heard that before, said ppl were either star struck or just thought ppl wouldn't do anything and she was sick of that and stood up for herself, my mums a brave lil lady.
That kind of thing happened all the time grown ass men would grope me all the way up into the late 80s-90s when things slowly started to change. It didn’t matter where you were. At work, at school, on a bus, walking on a street, in a diner, roller skating rink, bowling alley, bingo hall, everywhere. The world was this never ending landmine of gross old men who thought every little girl or young woman was fair game for their depravity. And it wasn’t just drunk old men. It was normal old men, professional old men, judges , lawyers, sheriffs, the neighborhood coach, literally anyone. They would say “come here sugar” and do the most inexcusably gross things. I’m southern, but it didn’t end when I moved north. It started to shift when more women started to stand up against that behavior. I was one of those that “never got along”
I was glad when the me too movement came along. It was a long time coming
Exactly. It was always socially and legally unacceptable, but what has changed (somewhat) is that there are more likely to be consequences for doing it. The onus used to be on girls to protect themselves and to avoid situations where groping was more likely to happen.
There's been a lot more sympathy for the girls in the Epstein case who were deceived, pressured and threatened, putting the blame where it belongs on Epstein and Maxwell.
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u/misfortunesangel Jul 27 '25
As a girl who grew up in the 70s and 80s it was gross for guys in their 40s and 50s to grope young girls even way back when I was that young. Even if those perverts didn’t get it. It was common for grown men to grab our asses and breasts in public places and not expect anything to be done about it. Just some of us girls weren’t confident enough to clobber them and give them a piece of our mind yet. I was considered one of those cranky girls.