by Meg Rickards
published in Mail & Guardian online.BODY LANGUAGE
Yes, the unthinkable happened and the man who is the United States president thinks it’s cool to grab you by the pussy.
It is not nice when one’s genitals are given an unsolicited squeeze. It happened to me on a train when I was barely in my teens and a few other times besides, and each time is seared into my memory like sulphur.
Of course, there are far, far crueller forms of sexual violence. But pussy-grabbing stands for an insidiously misogynistic attitude that regards women and girls as holes. And in the case of Donald Trump, it’s probably a surface wound: this is a man who’s been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
