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Now that this has been discussed on the record by the person involved, I’m just going to say this:

if anyone ever tries to grab MY ass on a stage (AGAIN— because it’s happened before), what happens to the hand that tries it thereafter won’t be a joke, I can promise you that.
That it wasn’t what it looked like here doesn’t change the fact that many experience unwanted touching almost every time we’re out there— tho more women than men by a long shot.

The visceral reaction that a lot of us had is a sign of how much it happens to women generally.
What I think about more often than I should is how folks who don’t have this level of celebrity but have some don’t have bodyguards a lot of the time.

The safety concerns are real.

And given that I personally have had to go to the cops twice this year over stalkers, well ...
Fandom is a weird thing and while I’m glad that this incident didn’t turn out to be what it looked like (because the vid was bad), it happens all the time to people in the public domain and we should be talking about that more than we are.
Think about this in the event that a male winner at tonight’s Globes grabs a presenter for an unwanted kiss.

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