Dear Editor:
As a woman voter, I am happy to participate in Phyliss Greenfield's dialogue.
Groping is an important issue because it indicates a fundamental rejection of the humanity of all women, treating us as objects who exist only for a man's pleasure without regard for our feelings and bodily integrity. Its practice also serves to keep women afraid, traumatized, anxious, hypervigilant, and sometimes out of the public sphere altogether.
Women have a lot to offer. We make effective leaders and peacemakers. Casual disregard of our dignity offends me.
America's problems cannot be effectively addressed if half of America is disrespected in such a manner.
When one segment of society can be dehumanized, it makes it easier to go on to dehumanize others: a religious group, an ethnicity, a nationality.
"America first" is not as appealing to me as "humanity first."