Trigger warning: rape, sexual assault

When I was six years old, I gave my first bl*wjob. “It’s a game”, said He. “Don’t you want to play?” It was too big, and I threw up on him. He said I’d do better the next time.

When I was seven years old, I watched a group of fellow second graders cheer as a boy in my class tried to kiss me. He hugged me from behind, giggling all the while. I threw sand in his eyes, and was sent to the Principal.

When I was eight years old, I had an elderly teacher ask me to stay behind in class. He carried me on his shoulders, and called me pretty. “Teacher’s Pet!” my friends declared, the envy visible on their faces. They ignored me at lunch that day.

When I was nine years old, an older girl on the school bus would ask me to lift my skirt up for her. She was pretty and kind, and told me that I could only be her friend if I did what she said. I wanted to be her friend.

When I was ten years old, a relative demanded that he get a kiss on the cheek every time we met. He was large and loud, and I proceeded to hide under my bed whenever I learnt that he was visiting. I was known as a rude child.

When I was eleven, my auto-man told me that we would only leave if I gave him a hug every day. He smelled like cheap soap and cigarettes.

When I was twelve years old, I watched as a man on the street touched my mother’s breast as he passed us. She slapped him amidst the shouts of onlookers telling her to calm down. She didn’t calm down.

When I was thirteen years old, I exited a restaurant only to see a man visibly masturbating as he walked towards me. As he passed, he winked lasciviously. My friends and I shifted our gazes down, aghast.

When I was fourteen, a young man in an expensive car followed me home as I walked back from an evening class. I ignored his offer to give me a ride, and I panicked when he got out, only to buy me a box of chocolate that I refused. He parked at the end of my road, and didn’t go away for an hour. “It turns me on to see you so scared.”

When I was fifteen, I was groped on a bus. It was with a heart full of shame that I confided in a friend, only to be met with his anger and disappointment that I had not shouted at the molester at the time when it happened. My soft protests of being afraid and alone were drowned out as he berated my inaction. To him, my passiveness and silence were the reasons why things like this continue to happen. He did not wait for my response.

When I was sixteen, I discovered that Facebook had a section of inbox messages named ‘others’, which contained those mails received from strangers, automatically stored as spam. Curious, I opened it to find numerous messages from men I had never seen before. I was propositioned, called sexy, asked for nudes, and insulted. Delete message.

When I was seventeen, I called for help as a drunken man tried to sexually harass me in a crowded street. The people around me seemed to walk by quicker.

At eighteen, I was told that sexism doesn’t exist in modern society. I was told that harassment couldn’t be as bad as us women make it out to be. That I should watch what I wear. Never mind you were six, never mind you were wearing pink pajamas. That I should be louder. But not too loud, a lady must be polite. That I should always ask for help. But stop overreacting, there’s a difference. That I should stay in at night, because it isn’t safe. You can’t get harassed in broad daylight. That I should always travel with no less than two boys with me. You need to be protected.

That it can’t be that hard to be a girl.

I am now nineteen years old. I am now tired.

UNC rape survivor Delaney Robinson comes forward with brave statement

Let me just list all the wonderful things Donald Trump has said about women.

1991, Esquire Magazine, about female journalists: “You know, it doesn’t really matter what [they] write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”

1992, New York Magazine, about gold-medal winning Olympic ice skater Katarine Witt: “Wonderful looking while on the ice but up close and personal, she could only be described as attractive if you like a woman with a bad complexion who is built like a linebacker.”

1992, New York Magazine: “You have to treat ‘em like shit.”

1993, Newshub, about his image as a womanizer: “I don’t enjoy that image. Yes I have that image. I think women are beautiful - I think certain women are more beautiful than others, to be perfectly honest – and it’s fortunate I don’t have to run for political office.”

1994, ABC News: “I have days where, if I come home — and I don’t want to sound too much like a chauvinist, but when I come home and dinner’s not ready, I go through the roof.”

1994, ABC News: “I think that putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing. Unfortunately, after they’re a star, the fun is over for me. It’s like a creation process. It’s almost like creating a building. It’s pretty sad.”

1997, Trump: The Art of The Comeback: “There are basically three types of women and reactions. One is the good woman who very much loves her future husband, solely for himself, but refuses to sign the agreement on principle. I fully understand this, but the man should take a pass anyway and find someone else. The other is the calculating woman who refuses to sign the prenuptial agreement because she is expecting to take advantage of the poor, unsuspecting sucker she’s got in her grasp. There is also the woman who will openly and quickly sign a prenuptial agreement in order to make a quick hit and take the money given to her.”

1997, Howard Stern, about buying the beauty pageant Miss USA: “They said, ‘How are you going to change the pageant?’ I said ‘I’m going to get the bathing suits to be smaller and the heels to be higher’. If you’re looking for a rocket scientist, don’t tune in tonight, but if you’re looking for a really beautiful woman, you should watch.”

1997, Howard Stern, about Princess Diana: “I think I could’ve [had sex with her].”

1999, New York Daily News: “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her. So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

2003, Howard Stern: “You know who’s one of the great beauties of the world, according to everybody? And I helped create her. Ivanka. My daughter, Ivanka. She’s 6 feet tall, she’s got the best body. She made a lot money as a model—a tremendous amount”

2004, the Daily News: “All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.”

2005, to a female candidate on The Apprentice: “I bet you make a great wife.“

2006, Howard Stern: “If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”

2006, Entertainment Tonight: “Rosie O'Donnell is disgusting, both inside and out. If you take a look at her, she’s a slob. How does she even get on television? If I were running The View, I’d fire Rosie. I’d look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers and say, 'Rosie, you’re fired.’ We’re all a little chubby but Rosie’s just worse than most of us. But it’s not the chubbiness - Rosie is a very unattractive person, both inside and out. Rosie’s a person who’s very lucky to have her girlfriend. And she better be careful or I’ll send one of my friends over to pick up her girlfriend, why would she stay with Rosie if she had another choice?”

2007, Trump 101: The Way to Success: “Beauty and elegance, whether in a woman, a building, or a work of art, is not just superficial or something pretty to see.”

2007, Larry King’s CNN Show, about Angelina Jolie: “I really understand beauty. And I will tell you, she’s not - I do own Miss Universe. I do own Miss USA. I mean I own a lot of different things. I do understand beauty, and she’s not.“

In 2007 he pitched a TV show called ‘Lady or a Tramp?’ This was reported to be a reality show, in which ‘"out of control” party girls were sent to charm school to learn some manners.

2008, Howard Stern: “They’ll walk up, and they’ll flip their top, and they’ll flip their panties.” He claims to be attracted to women who are 'a bit chunky’ when Stern asks if he’s ever 'reduced himself’ to sleeping with a 'fat woman’. Trump also says he’s 'been with women with extraordinarily bad breast jobs’ and 'pancake tits’. He adds that any woman who has a breast reduction is 'insane’.

2008, Access Hollywood, about Anne Hathaway’s divorce: “So when he had plenty of money, she liked him. But then after that, not as good, right?

2009, a quote by beauty queen Carrie Prejean about how Trump would have girls parade in front of him: “Many of the girls found this exercise humiliating. Some of the girls were sobbing backstage after [he] left, devastated to have failed even before the competition really began . . . it was as though we had been stripped bare.”

2011, Trump was in court testifying in a deposition over a failed Florida real estate project when lawyer Elizabeth Beck asked to take a break to breastfeed her three-month old daughter. The property mogul and his team objected, so she pulled out her breast pump to prove it. In an incident that Trump "does not dispute”, he walked out of the room, telling Beck she was “disgusting”.

2011: After New York Times columnist Gail Collins wrote about rumours of Trump’s bankruptcy, he sent her a copy of her own article, with her picture circled and “the face of a dog!” scrawled across it.

2012, When transgender Miss Universe contestant Jenna Talackova was kicked out of the contest for not having declared her trans status in her entry, Talackova’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, angrily said that no one had asked Trump to “prove” he was a man by showing his anatomy. In response, Trump called in to TMZ Live and said of his penis: “I think Gloria would be very impressed.“

2012: Huffington Post editor and co-founder Arianna Huffington is a regular target of Trump’s. But instead of attacking her liberal views, he tends to criticise her looks and make jokes about her divorce.

2013, The Wendy Williams Show, when asked what he has in common with his daughter Ivanka: "Well, I was going to say sex, but I can’t relate that to her.”

2013, Former Playboy playmate Brande Roderick was a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice in the US. During a tense boardroom battle, she knelt in front of Trump to ask him whether she could be the next project manager. After a six-second silence (an eternity on TV), during which Trump presumably willed some blood to return to his head, he said: “It must be a pretty picture. You dropping to your knee.“

2013: When he blamed sexual assault on cohabitation

2015, Des Moines Register, about his u-turn on his stance on abortion: “In thinking about it over the years, I’ve had instances, and one instance in particular, a friend had a child who they were going to abort, and now they have it, and the child is incredible. And the man, he changed his views also because of that.” He’s also said he’d be willing to shut down the US government to defund non-profit reproductive health organisation Planned Parenthood.

2015, Twitter: he said Hillary couldn’t ‘satisfy’ her husband and therefore couldn’t satisfy America.

2015, Twitter: he called Megyn Kelly a 'bimbo’ after the first Republican debate because she gave him a tough time. Later in an interview with CNN he said: "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever.”

2015, New York Times: “Heidi Klum. Sadly, she’s no longer a 10.”

2015, Rolling Stone Magazine, about Carly Fiorina: “Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next next President? I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?”

2015, during an election debate, Trump singled out his female Republican rival, conveniently ignoring the fact his male rivals were also talking over one another: “Why does she keep interrupting everybody?”

2016, MSNBC, referring to women who would defy the abortion ban: “There has to be some form of punishment.” Trump reversed his position two hours later, with a statement saying that he would punish doctors who performed abortions but not the women themselves.

2016, at one of his rallies he accused Hillary Clinton of being an enabler of her husband’s affairs: “Bill Clinton was the worst in history and I have to listen to her talking about it? Just remember this: She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler. And what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful. So put that in her bonnet and let’s see what happens.“

2016, when Megyn Kelly confronted him about calling her a bimbo and suggesting she was menstruating after she took him to task over sexist comments: "Did I say that? Excuse me. But over your life, Megyn, you’ve been called a lot worse, wouldn’t you say?”

2016, when Trump interrupted Hillary Clinton 25 times during the first 26 minutes of their first TV debate before saying: “She doesn’t have the look. She doesn’t have the stamina.”

2016, Fox News, after the first debate: “I was going to hit her with her husband’s women and I decided I shouldn’t do it because her daughter was in the room.“

2016, Howard Stern, about 12-year-old Paris Hilton: “Now, somebody who a lot of people don’t give credit to but in actuality is really beautiful is Paris Hilton. I’ve known Paris Hilton from the time she’s 12, her parents are friends of mine, and the first time I saw her she walked into the room and I said, ‘Who the hell is that?’” Stern asked: “Did you wanna bang her?” To which Trump responded” “Well, at 12, I wasn’t interested. I’ve never been into that … but she was beautiful.” He went on to admit he’d watched her sex tape.

2016, Access Hollywood: “I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there. And she was married.“ "I did try and fuck her, she was married.” “Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.” “Grab them by the pussy, you can do anything.”

2016, old Entertainment Tonight footage, when he leered at a 10 year old girl: “I am going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?”

Watch: Regular women and celebrities, many of whom have survived sexual assault or harassment, are banding together to tell Trump “It’s not okay”

In the cases of all the women who spoke out in the video, there was no justice. Their assaulters and harassers walked free because either nobody believed them or there was nothing they could do. The Trump tape was one of many final straws. "We’re not gonna take it any more,“ Amber Tamblyn said. "Like, for real, we’re not.”

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