I have two points to comment upon. Firstly I don't particularly like Lucy, I don't like women that pretend to be stupid for entertainments sake and I have always put her in this category. I couldn't bring myself to watch her initially. But I watched her just now and she appeared authentic to me and she has earned my respect.
My second point, I read somebody earlier that said they do not know a single woman that has not been sexually assaulted and I thought well I haven't been, anyway I can't find the thread again.
But I got thinking, in or around 1995, I am working class from the north west, and moved to London. I got an amazing job as a young accountant working with a multinational group in the finance department in a household name company in one of the best addresses in London. In my first six months, I attended an evening event. My elite group finance team was pretty small, maybe about 15 of us, I was standing in a small semi circle of about half the team in the venue, the other half turned up later and one of them arrived hyper excited with two arms out stretched, he ran towards me, grabbed each of my breasts in the respective hands, "twizzed" them around and then stopped and stood to join our conversation. I have no idea why he did that.
This pales into insignificance compared to what some women have endured. I am not traumatised, I don't have nightmares, but I have never forgotten. It is a memory that sticks with me very clearly whilst other memories of over 30 years old do not. What baffles me most about this incident, is that it did not even occur to me to report it. I am no shrinking violet, I am and was out spoken and especially at work. I went on to hold senior positions in multinationals, but for some reason, I did not make a complaint about that. If it happened today, I don't think there is any doubt that the female involved (me) would complain. I am at least glad about that.