text: Wow, so I'm halfway through reading this and I'm mortified. The man *spat* at them virtually unprompted, which is not only disgusting and belittling, but surely has to be considered an attack using bodily fluids?? This, and all of the slurs, violent language, and actual violence-- clearly this is a hate crime.  What were they expected to do? Just.... get spat on and aggressively cat called and suck it up? The system is failing these women. That made me so angry/sad. I'm going to finish reading it in a bit, but god. So far.... what the hell. :(