Recently, there was a Halloween party on my campus, and I was so excited to go. My friends and I went to go buy costumes, and we had a theme. When we were all dressed and ready to go, we grabbed our Student I.D.'s and headed for the fraternity house. Only shortly after leaving, we started receiving inappropriate cat calls, people stopping us on our way, and people physically touching us, just because we were dressed up. I was appalled. Never have I been treated in such a way. When we arrived at the house, the same things kept occurring. Someone grabbed my waist and pulled me towards them, and immediately my training from martial arts kicked in and broke free from the hold. I glared at the stranger, and said, "You have no right to touch me." He rolled his eyes and walked away.

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Needless to say I left the party early. I felt ashamed of myself and wanted to crawl under a rock. My outfit had pants and long sleeve, with a plunged V' neck line. It wasn't too revealing at all, but I still felt like I did something wrong. But you know what? I didn't. No one has the right to touch anyone without their permission or consent, and if you think otherwise you are wrong.

My body is mine. The woman body is not an object to sexualize, it is a body. A human beings body. If a woman tells you not to touch her, do not touch her. She is not playing a game, she is not being a bitch, and you, as another human, need to respect her response and her choice. Just because you are at a club or a party there to meet people, that still doesn't give you the right to touch anyone without their permission, no matter their clothing. Because you know what? She may be dressed that way she is because she is feeling herself, because she is out with her friends, or some other reason; but no matter how she is dressed, she is not asking for you to come up and harass her, because that is not what she was thinking when she put on that outfit. You can ask to dance with her, but if she says no, you need to respect that.