Helen Epstein

#MeToo?

Polling classmates from her all-girls high school, she hears them remember their experiences facing sexual predators on the subway.

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In the spring of 2005, my Hunter High School classmates were preparing a 40th reunion and exchanging news and questions on our listserv. I seized upon the opportunity to raise a question I had never raised while we were teenagers: was anyone still thinking about the unpleasant, often disgusting sexual encounters — I did not yet formulate them as assaults — with men that we experienced traveling to and from school on public transportation?

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#MeToo?

Polling classmates from her all-girls high school, she hears them remember their experiences facing sexual predators on the subway.

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