Here's a story that I found that I thought would be beneficial to share: I was working on a project with a guy in one of my classes that required us to be in a room with a few other students, without a teacher for our 90 minute class period. I was already fed up with this guy because he could not do any work so I ended up doing a majority of the project by myself. I kept on asking him to come over and help me with the project, and he would say 'in a minute sweetie/honey/baby' or something along those lines. Everytime he said that I said 'please stop calling me that, you know my name.' He continued and did not respect me. When he eventually came over to work on the project, it required us to work in close quarters. He asked me what my dating history was, if I'd ever kissed anyone, etc. I responded to his comments of 'probably not' 'I bet you haven't' etc. with how the previous year I had dated an upperclassman. He didn't believe me, but I didn't care. Then he started gently rubbing my belly, I told him stop, he refused, I batted away his hand and walked away. He was confused, he said "What that didn't feel good?" I said NO, don't do it anymore. Before the next class time I had realized that I was on my period so I became more aware of what I was saying and whenever I overreacted to a situation I aplologized and informed them that it was 'that time of the month'. When it came time for that class period he reacted rudely to me and I overreacted back, so I apologized and told him what time of the month it was. He concluded out loud "so that's why you didn't want your belly rubbed". I said "sure" in a sarcastic tone, but he didn't catch the sarcasm. I wanted to say "no, i didn't want you to rub my stomach" or "no, why did you even rub my stomach?" I didn't because I was afraid of his reaction. A simple no should be enough to get someone to stop touching you, but I have found this is not the case. Not just with this guy, but also with another guy who touches me on my knee or arm in a gentle way meant to arouse me, I tell him not to do that on a daily basis. I understand it's #notallmen but #yesallwomen need to be respected and thier choices about thier own bodies and who they want and don't want to touch them, and where their bounderies are need to be respected.