Trigger Warning

Police have arrested a 21-year-old man in Florida after he strangled and ran over a 14-year-old girl whom he offered $200 to have sex with him (he didn’t know her) and she refused. He left her on the side of the road and her injuries were life threatening, but THANKFULLY she is stabilized.

Want to know why street harassment is serious and scary a lot of times? Because of stories like this. Because this could happen to any one of us, especially to teenagers/young women. THIS IS NOT OKAY. Street harassment is not okay. Male entitlement, disrespecting women and girls (and any living creature) is unacceptable. Our hearts go out to this young woman and to everyone who has been harmed by street harassers and abusers.

H/T Soraya Chemaly