Do you think is no big deal for little girls to have to go through that where adult men leer at them and follow them and comment on their bodies and say what they’d like to do to them — constantly? If you think that’s OK, then that says a lot about you. If you don’t think that’s OK (I’m assuming this is the position you hold) then please say things that reflect that belief that no children should have to be subject to that kind of treatment.

85% of American women have had that as their pervasive life experience starting before the age of 17 — and many, many beginning at 10 or younger. Compassion isn’t relative or hierarchical.