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[–]cucumber-cat 50 insightful - 1 fun50 insightful - 0 fun51 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Working sales in an adult store is what peaked me. I ran into a wide variety of customers, and inevitably some would start trying to push me to respond sexually to them while I was just trying to do my damn job. After a particularly uncomfortable encounter, I realized the TIM I had been trying to help was behaving EXACTLY THE SAME as all the other men who had gone out of their way to make me uncomfortable at work, with the added bonus of “but I’m a woman” when they insisted on prying my irrelevant sexuality out of me. Tons of previous encounters all clicked into place in my head right then, and I peaked.

[–]fuckingsealions 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So many peaking stories seem to involve lived experiences. It shocks me that we're dismissed.