Um, from the attention paid to my breasts? And the men’s obvious assumption that I should welcome the attention and explicit comments made by creeps to my 15 y.o. self?
Despite my figure, I did not look one year older than I was. Short and baby-faced.
General culture can tell a lot of lies, can’t it.
And I can vouch for the relative sexual looseness of American society for decades, having grown up in it.
I’m a guy, but I still remember when, as a boy, I was getting eyeglasses, and the eye doctor (who also sold eyeglasses) suggested Playboy frames. No kidding... they came in preteen boys’ sizes.
My mom was NOT aghast... she was for the latest and coolest stuff as long as society seemed to back it. I got the Playboy frames. Nobody, not even the religious congregation where I went, bothered to ask if this was appropriate. Nope, boy, you’re supposed to be the tiger and the girls the meat, they might as well have told me.
What. A. Bunch. Of. Unholy. Hooey. That. Was.
So you have concluded that men thought you were trying to get their attention because you had breasts? That's pretty much a non-sequitur by definition.
Further, how was it "obvious" that you should welcome that attention?