#MeToo on the campus: Five men who rue the way they treated girls in school

The New York Times invited male readers to tell about their high school experiences

Late on the Friday afternoon of September 21, the same week that Christine Blasey Ford went public with accusations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh, The New York Times invited male readers to tell us about their high school experiences. Had you, we asked, ever behaved toward girls or women in ways you now regret?

By Monday morning, we had more than 750 responses.

Not all of them were from men recounting past experiences of committing or witnessing sexual assault. Some told us that they’d always conducted themselves respectfully: “We knew VERY well what was appropriate and not appropriate,” one