2 in the afternoon, I was walking up the steps of my dorm at U.Md., two drunk guys grab me and one of them tries to kiss me. My instinctive reaction was to go for his eyes with my long sharp fingernails. He yelled, and they let go and ran away.
For some reason that incident did not provoke fear, shame, or silence in me, perhaps because I so clearly "won" the encounter, perhaps because it was completely obvious to me that it was Not My Fault.
Re: That's right.
For some reason that incident did not provoke fear, shame, or silence in me, perhaps because I so clearly "won" the encounter, perhaps because it was completely obvious to me that it was Not My Fault.
The other 2 incidents were more unpleasant.