Sexism has probably also affected you more because as an HSW you are bound to pick up on and process more deeply all the negative messages that still reach you about women—whether in sexist language, in the use of women’s bodies to sell products, in differential treatment in school or on the job, or in learning to be cautious so you aren’t raped or appear to be asking to be raped. If you also learned to feel bad about yourself for your other difference, your sensitivity, you carry two reasons to feel less than okay,
