Women should not have to be in an all-female environment all the time to avoid being abused by men. For the past several days, there were only a couple of other patients at the unit, and neither of them were male. Last night, a male patient was admitted, the harassment started today at 6:45 a.m., and happened several times throughout the day, escalating in the past half hour after the nurse told me she didn't think he was doing it on purpose.
I have been at this unit for exactly 2 months, showing through my words and actions that I am not paranoid or delusional, and none of it has added up to anything. As soon as a new male patient gets here and starts harassing me, the staff take his side and he can do whatever he wants while he and I both know that I'll get in trouble if I object to his abuse. It took fewer than 24 hours for him to establish his ability to abuse me.
Copyright L. Kochman, February 4, 2015 @ 5:20 p.m./addition @ 5:21 a.m.
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