1 In 6 Teen Girls Say Theyve Experienced Harassment Since Election Day

[sheshe2]

A new report examines the sexual violence young women face in the U.S.

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These statistics take on new weight given that the president of the United States is an accused sexual predator.


According to the survey, more than 1 in 6 teenage girls (or 17 percent) reported that they had experienced harassment since the 2016 presidential election.


Many advocates worried that there would be an uptick in violence against women when President Donald Trump took office. Directly after the election, many incidences of sexism and harassment happened, along with an increase in hate crimes.


President Trump has been accused of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women, and has publicly defended other men who have been accused of sexual harassment and assault, like Roger Ailes and the recently-ousted Bill O’Reilly.


“My concern is based on not just what [President Trump’s] behavior has been, because he is an individual, but what he can do to influence other men’s behaviors and other women’s perceptions of their value,” Rita Smith, the former executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, told The Huffington Post in November. “Even just the election itself had an impact on how men treated and talked about women.”

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How sick is this, the country elected a sexual predator to the highest office. A man accused of assaulting more than a dozen women, caught on tape no less, bragging about it. He publically has defended both Ailes and O'Reilly. He defends their assaults and has enabled men and boys to believe they can take what they want when the want it. The violence against women has escalated and will continue to do so under this pathetic excuse for a man. Women are no longer safe at school, walking the dog, jogging and they are no longer safe in their very own homes.

[Useless in FL]

1. You are so correct...

I worry that this is only going to accelerate violence against women....especially as women get older. I walk everyday and I pick up trash along the roads and I have noticed an uptick in the nasty yells and screeches from men in pickups as they rush....and accelerate past me.

If you are an older woman, as I am, I really notice the nasty comments.

[sheshe2]

4. Stay aware of your surroundings.

Stay vigilant. Please stay safe.

Yes I am an older woman as well, none of us are exempt to the escalating violence.

[Lucinda]

2. ...

It's going to take a lot to undo the mess this man has created...

[sheshe2]

5. Years and years, Lucinda.

We are the ones that have to do the clean up over and over.

[Lucinda]

7. Yep...

[Initech]

12. It might take a century to undo the damage the GOP / Tea Party / Trump Brigade has done.

40 fucking years of this bullshit and now this is the world we live in. Argh do I hate them.

[Lucinda]

14. Hopefully we can contain as much as possible now, and change the House in 2018...

But yeah, damage is going to take a while to undo...

[Achilleaze]

3. Freaking Republican Family values are at the bottom of this scuzzbucket

Deep horrible

[sheshe2]

10. They scraped the bottom of the barrel...

and keep on digging. No end in sight.

[tavalon]

6. I'm not a teen. In fact, I'm pushing toward 55,

and I am a rare bird because until the Women's March, I had never been sexually assaulted. At the protest, one side of my sign said, "Where are your taxes?", and the other side said, "This pussy bites back". A young guy started verbally harassing me and when I turned to face him, he grabbed my breast. I kneed him so hard, my knee hurt for three days. I left him on the ground, wordlessly screaming.

[sheshe2]

8. Dayum you girl friend, you rock.

Slow clap here.

Brava! You are a shero.

Awesome tavalon...I was in Boston for our march. We are one woman...RESIST PERSIST

[NurseJackie]

13. Yes!

I'm sorry... but GOOD FOR YOU!!

[tavalon]

16. My knee hurt for 2 days

It was a satisfying pain. I've had so much pent up anger and he got it all.

[okasha]

15. You go, sister!

[betsuni]

9. K&R

[Initech]

11. This is why we can't have nice things.