Being a woman in today’s society is brutal, for so many reasons.

Let’s just stick with dating for today, shall we?

It’s a joke. Tinder is terrible and it’s just an excuse for guys to send obscene things to you hiding behind a screen. Don’t tell me a guy would walk up to me in a bar and actually say something that they’ve messaged a girl online.

What about when you do find someone and it seems like an actual good match and then it turns out they don’t care about you and lead you on? Wasted your time? You tell a friend about it and they reply “that’s just how dating is,” and literally look like that shrugging emoji on an iPhone.

Walking down the street and hearing cat calls and whistles? Normal. Someone groping you when you’re dancing with your friends at a bar? You should be flattered.

What about when you get pushed into a bedroom at a party when you’re just trying to go to the bathroom? When you get pinned against a bed and have someone sexually assault you? The only reason you didn’t get raped is because you still had your one-piece swimsuit on under your clothes from earlier that day? Boys will be boys, I guess. (Insert shrugging emoji once again.)

When the man who sexually assaulted you is up for Supreme Court Judge and you come forward about what he did to you in high school and you get accused of making up stories.

That’s what’s happening right now to Christine Blasey Ford. She came forward because she felt it was her civic duty to let the people know someone they want in the Supreme Court sexually assaulted her.

Ford had to relive what I can only imagine is the worst night of her life in front of 11 men who had to decide if she was credible enough to be believed. One of the most notable comments about her testimony came from a Senator in Utah, “she’s an attractive, good witness. She’s pleasing.”

According to sacha.ca, one in three women will experience sexual assault in her life. Five per cent will report it.

Why not more? Women have to be put on trial to be believed. Women can report it, can take action, and have the man who assaulted them walk away with three months in jail and three years’ probation because he showed remorse.

I could go on for days about this. Almost every girl I know has been sexually assaulted in one form or another. I certainly have been.

It’s time to make real consequences for the men that do these things to women. I don’t care if they were 17 or 73 at the time they assaulted a woman. She has to live with these scars for the rest of her life, so should the men.

I think the Brett Kavanaugh case will be precedent setting. If he gets elected despite what he did, I don’t think I’ll have any faith left.