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Are There Any Women Who Have Not Experienced Sexual Harassment or Assault?

Libby Winkler
3 min readFeb 25, 2023

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The utterly pervasive experience of all women I know is to have fought off unwanted, repeated advances. I wonder if there are any women who have not experienced this.

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#MeToo — Have You Been Harassed or Assaulted?

The #MeToo movement is gaining a lot of traction.

It seems like every day, another woman comes forward with her story of sexual harassment or assault. The list of powerful men who have been accused is growing by the day. But what about the women who haven’t been harassed or assaulted?

Are there any of us left?

#MeToo Denials

I’ll be honest, when I first heard about #MeToo, I didn’t want to believe it.

I didn’t want to think that there were that many men out there who would stoop so low as to harass or assault a woman. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was probably true. After all, one in four women will be sexually assaulted in…

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Libby Winkler
Libby Winkler

Written by Libby Winkler

Freelance writer who loves exploring the messiness of humanity, while poking around in nooks of life and shining light on all the things that make us complex..

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