Amy

I don't, maybe they would have, but it feels like it would have been just much more of a slap on the wrist and not like what it would be today.

And that,

This is truly an abuse of power and it's completely wrong.

Yeah, for sure.

I would say like the start of that was the comments about wanting to take me to prom.

I feel like that was a thing that planted the seed of even though I could draw on this experience for years after that as an exciting one, that seed of it started to grow.

And certainly when Me Too kind of blew up, the framing changed as society was more open to hearing about

these stories and women were sharing, even though my story, it's not super scandalous and it was relatively PG.

I can see it for what it is now.

And as someone who is a woman, as a mother, I can see, I wouldn't want my friends or my daughter to be in that kind of situation.

I would want them to feel empowered to see through it for what it really was, which was a power imbalance.

I think that there is more to be said about the long-term impact because while I've talked about how exciting that time felt and how good it felt to be singled out, there was also the side of shame to it and secrecy.

I talked about the anxiety and what my body was experiencing during that time with anxiety and I didn't really know to put the words shame and anxiety and tie that to.

what my body was doing at the time.

But certainly the shame lasted the longest compared to like the excitement.

I felt a lot of shame because it felt like, oh, I'm just this girl who any person that gave her attention, she'll just melt into that.

I felt a lot of shame about that.

And I felt the most shame about like, well, he told me that he's not with his partner.

So I wanted to believe that, but it was like, I always felt that was not quite right.

And so that was a big source of shame for me as well.