Thread by @ISeeYouMotel6

1. In 1985 I was sexually assaulted by an editor of a Wall Street trade publication magazine where I worked as an assistant editor. He...

2. He walked up behind me as I was making copies pressed himself up against me on the copy machine and laughed. I was 24 years old. He was..

3. in his late 40's and recently divorced with kids. I had no idea what to do. When he moved, I turned and left. The next day I resigned...

4. but not before i outlined how he had sexually assaulted me, and how even before that, he had asked me out in his office when we had a...

5. meeting on articles. I remember telling my office mate - a woman - who told me to just ignore him and never be alone again. You see...

6. In 1985, it was still the Wolf of Wall Street era, where high rollers brought hookers into their offices, did drugs openly, and sex...

7. harassment was COMMON. Also, there were few, if any, laws in place punishing men who sexually harassed. There were few, if any laws, ...

8. protecting women from retaliation. And so instead of enduring it and ultimately getting fired for rejecting the creeper's creepy touch..

9. I quit. BUT, not before writing an outline of the editor's request that I date him and his sick pushing against me on the copy machine.

10. and I put that outline on the desk of every employee in the office before I walked out. I got a call from the male advertising director

11. who wanted me to talk to him because I was 1 of MANY women this predator had harassed. Given the ad director never warned me, I had no..

12. desire to helm HIM. So, I went to the EEOC (Equal Opportunity Employment Commission) in NYC and filed a formal complaint...

13. I was assigned a male investigator who scheduled an interview with me. Once there, the old, haggard, male investigator demeaned me...

14. and mocked me. "Is THAT all he did?" the old, haggard, male investigator said. He chastised me, belittled me, humiliated me....

15. I barely held it together as I died inside while walking out of the EEOC feeling sexually assaulted yet again... So I went home to NJ...

16. and told my Dad, a Wall St. lawyer, what had happened. See, in the late 70's my dad FIRED a lawyer for ITT Corp where my dad was senior

17. counsel of litigation. the lawyer had been sexually harassing a secretary for a long time. Dad told him to knock it off and like in ...

18. typical Wall St. fashion of the time, blew my dad off & continued heavy harassment. Dad, who grew up in an orphanage & fought in WWII..

19. FIRED him. I was in High School & my Dad wanted me to know that it was NEVER alright that a man sexually assault/harass any woman EVER..

20. So, I wrote a letter to the EEOC and complained abt the investigator & was assigned a female investigator named Rosalia from Puerto Rico

21. Rosalia told me no one messes with Rosalia. And Rosalia did the investigation, found other victims and the editor was FIRED. But...

22. IF my Dad hadn't been a feminist & had Rosalia not backed me, there would have been more victims. But the culture continued.....

23. In 1992 I worked at the #SanDiego Public Defender’s Office. My team leader was having affair(s) w/supervisor(s) and doing drugs...

24. One of the men she was having an affair with-also a boss-of mine- also sexually harassed me in the elevator. When I reported this to...

25. Management, I was told to leave immediately. I was told I was insubordinate. BUT just 2 weeks later, a supervisor was DEMOTED & moved...

26. To an outlying Office where he would have NO supervisory power over any young lawyers. My team leader who was using drugs & sleeping ...

27. Went on administrative leave & went out of state to drug rehab & never returned. So, the two men in the office stayed, I was fired & the

28. Woman who was used by the men who was a drug addict left & never returned. The men won. Welcome to 1992. Long story, but I ended up ...

29. Settling for a small sum because in 1992 there was very little law for female plaintiffs of retaliation. Even then, women were chattel

30. Fast forward to 2010. A former DA who became a judge had numerous affairs with #SanDiego prosecutors. EVERYONE knew. But ...

31. He was PROTECTED by ALL of the other judges on the bench because most judges are former DA’s and they ALWAYS protect each other...

32. One day, the judge who was sleeping with all the DA’s got abusive with me and I’d had enough. So I reported him to presiding judge...

33. And guess what? He was removed from the criminal division and only allowed to hear civil cases. Kept him $180,000/yearly salary.

34. That’s it. Then, in 2014 an old male lawyer called me a “she bitch” in a declaration in support of a summary judgment motion in a ...

35. Civil right case in federal court. Neither our female magistrate nor our black male senior judge did ANYTHING abt it until I made a...

36. Stink about it. It passed muster until I MADE it an issue. See, an old man calling a female lawyer a “she bitch” in 2014 in federal ....

37. Court was “looked over” until I made an issue of it. The judge ultimately held the male lawyer in contempt of court, but what I had...

38. To do to get that to happen was ridiculous. And so it continues.

39. Women will ALWAYS be a target. Always. That an older female judge and an older black judge didn't POUNCE on that old white man until...

40. I made an issue ON THE RECORD, tells you how BAD it is. Heck, two years ago I apologized to a male lawyer I stepped in front of so ...

41. I could talk to a clerk. His response? "You can lean over in front of me ANY TIME, I don't mind." #WTF? And he treated this like it was

42. a compliment, as he smiled at me with his cheesy grin. When I told him that was not appropriate, the smile faded and I was CHIDED for...

43. not "taking a compliment." See, that's the thing. How do women fight THAT mindset? Here's another....

44. I was talking movies w/a lawyer at lunch who recently lost his wife from cancer. He asked me if I had seen "American Psycho" & the scene

45. where the psycho was "pounding" a woman from behind while admiring his biceps in a mirror. Then he told me about a time he was in Vegas

46. and walked into his room w/friends to see his friend pounding some wasted woman from behind and when they passed by the open-door room..

47. the friend "posed" like the "American Psycho" admiring his biceps. At this lunch was the man's 17-year-old son... And he thought this...

48. Story was OK to divulge to me AND his 17-year-old son. Most recently, when this same lawyer mansplained be about white supremacy & I...

49. called him out as to why he was supporting a man whose friend were white supremacists & why he was mansplaining me, he went into full...

50. attack mode - a mode he would NEVER have used on a man. So, welcome to 2017 where NOTHING has changed. It's there RIGHT IN YOUR FACE...

51. EVERY SINGLE DAY. If you call it out, you are a bitch, or a 'she bitch." You are retaliated against, called names and suppressed.

52. So get off Angelina Jolie's and Gwyneth Paltrow's backs. Maybe Meryl Streep had the POWER to call hi out, but she wasn't his victim.

53. AND - part of the problem is the women who back those men and abuse the female victims....and there are MANY. It is a multi-tiered...

54. PROBLEM. It's time women banded together in support & stopped backing harassers. #LisaBloom had no business taking on #HarveyWeinstein

55. But that kind of horrid behavior by women against women happens ALL THE TIME. Women: Stop backing sexually assaulting men. THE END.

56. OK, one more. In 2016 Trump stalked Clinton at the debate & she had to decide on the spot whether or not to challenge him. THAT's sad.

57. OK, this BITCH has 1 more... That journos are slamming #Clinton for not commenting on Weinstein instantly rather than focusing on ...

58. male Hollywood enabling a sexual assaulting PROVES my entire rant above that after 32 years, NOT MUCH has changed. Women: stick together

Ok, so now a former football player who has a book out now about being a great guy is trending bc he said his balls were grabbed by a man...

When I pointed out that making him a hero & trending MINIMIZES what women have historically dealt with, I started getting mean tweets 👇

There are some men that just CAN’T not jump into something that is so PREDOMINENTLY N-O-T about them.