'I don’t want young women to go through what I have.' Ahead of Emily Atack's documentary, Asking For It, airing tonight, Metro spoke to 6 women who shared their experiences of online sexual harassment.
from someone I last had contact with as a teenager – I genuinely hadn’t spoken to him in decades.
I didn’t say anything – I couldn’t. I didn’t even have a witty reply. I blocked him and reported him to the site, and reported him to the police. I didn’t hear anything back from Facebook at all. The police were pretty good – while they said they weren’t going to take any further action, they kept a record of the incident. I wanted them to have it on file, in case he was a serial offender.
in my inbox. This man had also seemingly found my work mobile number and messaged me a load of pictures of himself onI remember when I saw I received these pictures, I actually threw my phone at one of the guys alongside me for him to deal with it. I hadn’t even had my morning coffee yet. When I was younger and dating, I’d got a few pictures before, but LinkedIn is meant to be a professional network so I was really disgusted that he’d done it that way.
The harassment hasn’t stopped as I’ve gotten older. I’m more internet savvy now, with private personal accounts, but work has meant more often or not, I’ve had to have a public account. If I got these pictures when I was with friends, we’d all laugh and I’d give a snarky response back like: ‘Bit small, innit?’ But then they could get nasty. You’ve hurt their pride and their reaction to that is trying to get you back. I’ve been called a slag, an ugly bitch – all sorts.
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