You are brave for sharing this, @agmoore. And brilliant for focusing on your own experience, rather than the significant inequities that exist even today. It tends to put people on edge, for some reason. My own experience has included many events and personal hurdles that are akin to yours. There used to be a guy at one of my jobs who would pull me onto his lap every time I visited him in his office. And I needed to go to his office in order to do the work I was charged with.

Some things have changed. Sexual harassment is called out more often. Women more often raise the alarm when they are being belittled, harassed, treated unfairly, paid unfairly, and so on. But the issues have not gone away.

According to a 2020 U.S. government census women still earn only 83 cents for every dollar men earn. It's a great improvement over the 56.6 women earned for every dollar men earned in 1973. But one has to wonder why there is still a gap.

And why are women still so often the targets of sexual assault? A study from Cal Poly Humboldt revealed that "an estimated 91% of victims of rape and sexual assault are female and 9% male. Nearly 99% of perpetrators are male." It's wrong from every angle one might want to look at it.

So, it's unfortunate if people feel annoyed, threatened, or aggravated by feminism, and by women standing up for themselves and calling attention to inequities, unfairness, and physical or emotional abuse. But it has never gotten us anywhere to just lie down and take it.