It's been so long since this post was made I doubt anybody will see my comment but this story moved me a lot and I want to say something about it. I nearly cried reading this. I feel that it is important to note that I am male. I think the reason I was so moved by this, beyond mere empathy, was my little half-sister. She is much younger than me but has already experienced the pains of being female in this harsh world. Her grandfather on her father's side (we share our mother but have different fathers) was found out as a pedophile almost two years ago. Child pornography was found in his possession and he later admitted to touching some of his younger female family members; nieces, granddaughters and so on. I remember the day that my mother came to my door crying and hugged me saying "He did it. He admitted to it." We had known about the child pornography for months but we were sure he hadn't done anything to the girls. We hugged, spoke, and cried together for all of an hour until she decided to go back up to her room and try figure out what we were going to do about this as a family. He wasn't in jail yet and it would still be a long time until the day his trial arrived. I remember my mother asking me if I thought she should go see him. To yell at him, hurt him, kill him. To do something. I said through sobs that she shouldn't give him the satisfaction. I saw my sister later that day and started crying again. We were pretty sure that she didn't remember whatever he'd done and we never told her that her grandpa was going to prison. In that moment of seeing her, this tiny innocent person that I love so dearly, after such a heart-breaking revelation, I broke down. Ever since then I've spent so much time worrying about the further troubles she'll have to face in life simply because of her gender. I want to be there for her but as someone who hasn't had those same experiences growing up I don't how much of a help I'll be. I am so afraid for her in so many ways. I hear blatant nonchalant misogyny and ignorance in conversation with men that I otherwise think of as intelligent caring people and it makes me so scared for the future of my little sister. That's what this made me think of and whether anyone reads it or not I'm glad I wrote it out.