[Note: I forgot to post this two weeks ago when I wrote it!]
My 84-year-old grandpa is visiting me and he gave me permission to share this on the blog.
One night when he was in college in Utah, he was invited to the girls’ dorm. He went into the dorm cafeteria with a friend and there were about 300 girls there and he was the only guy. He had asked ahead of time if any other guys would be there and his friend said usually there were 4 or 5 men, but it turned out that there were none there that night.
He felt uncomfortable as the only man there and then he can still remember one woman from Wyoming whistling at him and saying things like, “Hey good looking.”
He felt really uncomfortable and even though he knew they wouldn’t hurt him, he hated it.
That experience helped him better understand how girls and women feel when they’re harassed and it’s stuck with him for more than 60 years.
He is an ally in working to end harassment.
