And the shame—you know, concurrent with shame is anger, and my mother—when we'd joked around about this in New York, my brothers and I, my mother would say, “Will you stop talking about that? That's the past.”
If I could talk to my 19-year-old self, I'd just say, hey you know, you're gonna date just like a normal 20-something should be allowed to, but you're going to be a national lightning rod for slut shaming.
The success of the project helped do away with-or remove-strong feelings of shame or disapproval felt by many people regarding mental health, known as stigma.