Victims

use Twitter to highlight the "invisible" problem, says

Laura Bates

, founder of Project Everyday sexism

Nobody should be surprised by the official statistics show that one in five women over 16 years in England and Wales has been the victim of a sexual offense. Just before the report was launched last week in response to a wave of accounts for the year post-New harassment, sexism daily project invites women to share their experiences of harassment on Twitter with the hashtag # ShoutingBack. About 3,500 have done in the first five days.

The frequency of reported incidents is alarming: "Every day since I was 14 years old ..." "I've lost count of how many times ..." "This is called a bitch, whore, slut, slag on the street often mentioned," were some of them. One woman said: "In the street, leaned over to tie my shoe, man walks step, sticking his hand inside my blouse, bra and squeezing my chest." Another described his "force embraced by a stranger in the street in broad daylight. "A woman, a cancer patient, a man said openly pushed his friend along the way and said," You missed completely bald .. dam good. "

Many incidents in public transport, "... a man who puts his hand caressing my skirt and my legs "in a full pipe, a woman who tried to get off the train for a man grabbed her breasts and say" this is not your stop, I want. " Another victim said a man "told me to f *** down ... then he tried to force my head on his knees."

theme tyrants become aggressive rejection has also been repeated over and over again. A crying woman said, "Hey ... come here," was replaced by "Bitch, I'll hit you so hard" when she refused. Another described being "followed by a car of teenagers who then attempted to overthrow me when I did not want to talk to them." In one case, "began the harassment on the street, asking if I was married, put an end to sexual assault on my door at 3:00."

While police were favorable, the officer said: "Usually, I would tell you to avoid walking by yourself late at night, but you know - do New Year get home somehow .. "As a young woman in London, customers sexual harassment so often (" almost every day ") when we reflect on the incident, said:" In theory, I'm angry about it, but not emotionally I feel almost nothing but resigned. But the fact that I am resigned to this kind of thing makes me angry. "

Most troubling is the number of accounts describing the sexual harassment and abuse of girls. It said: "While walking home last year, a man in a parked car ask [ed] me a blowjob 15 years old and in school uniform.". A recount "being told by my parents not defend myself because I was raped. "

Holly Kearl , founder of street harassment in Stop American organization, said. "Street harassment is often an invisible problem or presented as a joke, praise or blame the person being harassed is in fact a violation of human rights."
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