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Therese ?@TheReLe78
Walking city streets alone a saturday night a man forces himself on me. Afterwards told I was to blame for walking alone #ShoutingBack

Auragasmic ?@Auragasmic
Waiting for the bus while a group of men yelled awful things at me. A lesbian couple stopped and waited with me. #shoutingback

Mary Caroline ?@merrygolightly
To some people #ShoutingBack has shocking stories, to others it makes us feel a lot less alone. To everyone, it's proof that we need action.

Hanna Nina Jameson ?@missjamesonx
Tell male friends about constantly being followed and touched by random people. Get told I secretly enjoy the 'compliment' #ShoutingBack

Hanna Nina Jameson ?@missjamesonx
Constantly planning daily routes home around where I'm likely to avoid harassment and prepositions. Men don't have to do this #ShoutingBack


The Doctor's Wife ?@Blue_Rose_
@EverydaySexism Sick to death of being honked at for having the audacity to walk on the sidewalk by myself in broad daylight. #ShoutingBack

ho ?@harriollier
i would tweet about my own experience but i'm too afraid of being judged negatively, i think that says a lot in itself. #ShoutingBack

Lauren Wolfe ?@Wolfe321
Because my eyes are in my head, not my chest, thank you, I am #ShoutingBack.


3h Lauren Wolfe Lauren Wolfe ?@Wolfe321
Because I was told once I was hired for my looks despite my grad school degree & other qualifications. Will never forgive. #ShoutingBack


chiller ?@chiller
Re #shoutingback. If I wrote down all the assaults & verbal harassment experienced since age 12 I'd be here for a month.

Trudi T ?@tru
In bar in hometown; making way through crowded pub, man grabs me by the neck & forces my head down so mate can fart in my face #shoutingback

ylhlhr ?@stopgrinning
#shoutingback complaining about street harassment or harassment in general, being told by others you should feel 'flattered'.

Catherine Pleb-Ant ?@Fractalcat
Slapped hard on arse by man who ran garage when buying sweets with friend aged about 11/12 (he did it to both of us) #ShoutingBack

Chryselle ?@chryselled
#ShoutingBack At 18, while waiting at a busstop in Bombay, a bunch of guys sped past in a car. One leaned out the window, hit me on the head


Gemma Duncan ?@GemmaRambles
Many times when walking I've been followed down the street by men asking me questions, where am I going, do I have a bf, #ShoutingBack 1/2

Helen ?@helenaimeej
#shoutingback on a late night train. Bloke asked me if I wanted to share his McDonald's. I said I was vegetarian. He called

[redqueen]

1. Everyday Sexism: What’s the big deal?

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/21/everyday-sexism-what%E2%80%99s-the-big-deal/

Since starting the Everyday Sexism Project to document women’s day-to-day experiences of niggling, normalised sexism, I’ve heard questions like ‘what’s the big deal’? What does it matter if a guy makes a comment on your looks in the street? Is it really such a huge issue if somebody assumes your male colleague is your boss? Why are you making such a fuss about a billboard?

It’s understandable that these things might seem minor. But they are just part of the inestimable weight of other ‘minor’ incidents which build up day by day, little by little, creating an overwhelming and frustrating sense of prejudice and powerlessness. And for women around the world, they are also inseparable from wider gender imbalance, which affects women professionally, politically, socially and economically. These incidents are often invisible to those who don’t experience them, making it difficult adequately to convey the sheer scale of the problem.

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Now put it into the wider context – zoom out one step more. Because when those men in the street become so publically aggressive and threatening, maybe she’s reminded of the 80,000 or more women who are raped every year in the UK, or that on average two women per week die as a result of domestic violence. When she’s overlooked at work, perhaps she remembers that women hold less than a third of top jobs in the UK, and earn around 10% less for equivalent positions, or that they’re not expected to achieve wage parity for another 97 years. When she hopes for legal advances to support her when she is harassed in the street, she might remind herself that men outnumber women by four to one in the UK Parliament, or that only 13.2% of our most senior judges are women.

And that’s why it matters. Because these ‘tiny’ incidents don’t only build to a numbing, oppressive, overwhelming statement of how society views and values you as a woman. They are also a daily reminder of the inequality women around the world face and will continue to face on a daily basis, until we begin to tackle the large issues and the small. And that is why it’s such a big deal.

[Warpy]

2. I love this, it needs to be said

and a mirror held up to all the punks out there who think they have a right to touch another human being's body without her permission or to shout sexually demeaning things at her.

I am so glad to be over 50 and invisible.