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Joe Sommerlad
May 15, 2019
Sexual harassment in the workplace
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Twitter is often rife with depressing tales of everyday sexism and harassment experienced by women everywhere, from public transport to the workplace.
To address the negativity and attempt to derive some positive lessons from the upsetting behaviour people report, twitter user Feminist Next Door asked her male followers an interesting question:
Good guys: tell me about a time you saw misogyny or predatory behavior in action and spoke up. What did you say? Wh… https://t.co/JShsNy160u— feminist next door (@feminist next door) 1551586944
Many of the responses she received from both men and women - often recounting harrowing scenarios - were superb, heartening in their decency and sometimes even outright heroic.
Here are 13 of the best stories.
@emrazz She contacted me the next day and thanked me for not letting her go with them. It turned out to be her abus… https://t.co/LQixc6DFwQ— Planet Him (@Planet Him) 1551600136
@emrazz Some rando grabbed my behind at a bar; I laid into him. A guy overheard me, stepped in and asked if he touc… https://t.co/oONB3Qz79z— Over It. (@Over It.) 1551590367
@emrazz My husband saw some men harassing a waitress. One grabbed her by the p. He stormed across the restaurant an… https://t.co/ykg4dIoBpP— 🇨🇦Laura 🇨🇦BLM (@🇨🇦Laura 🇨🇦BLM) 1551588601
@emrazz At a church fair, my then 3-year-old son wanted to enter a raffle for a purse. He dropped his tickets in &… https://t.co/sQ7RIlhV3u— Get the shot. Wear the mask. (@Get the shot. Wear the mask.) 1551625081
@emrazz I call out my high school students all the time. They respect me for some reason 🤷🏽♂️. I explain what it l… https://t.co/tvESAyHXyT— AJ Sisneros ❤️ (@AJ Sisneros ❤️) 1551589756
@emrazz Once I was on public transit, & a guy walked up to a girl with headphones on & reading a book, he started h… https://t.co/iUW32r8Vwh— Croix Noire (@Croix Noire) 1551602554
@emrazz I’m second in line behind woman at the bank. Older man cuts in front of her. I tell him that he just cut he… https://t.co/Ojfc8qJOzZ— Eniiwaju (@Eniiwaju) 1551599074
@emrazz I’ve been the “wet blanket” guy who’s had to publicly tell someone their joke wasn’t funny. Once you start… https://t.co/Xr7XEKSnvH— Isaac Byrne (@Isaac Byrne) 1551591173
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