I get cat called and beeped at from men in cars almost everyday, I get felt up pretty much every time I go to a bar, I have been flashed (when I was 12!!!), and I have been followed all the way home, to look out of the window to see the guy waiting there 20 minutes later! Again I was 13/14.
It is absolutely disgusting. What’s worse is that I am only 18 now and have had this much experience with sexual harassment ALREADY. Just yesterday a man shouted, “All I want is some tight pussy” clearly feeling no shame or embarrassment for saying this to a girl half his age.
Optional: What’s one way you think we can make public places safer for everyone?
Harsher punishments for this behaviour, education – however, I do believe that, in my experience, it tends to be older men who do this kind of thing.
– M
Location: Leeds, England
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