It was a horrible experience. I was biking on the street and this car with 4 young men stopped next to me. They started saying things which really upset me, so I decided to go through the red light so I would be safe. When the sign turned green they drove after me, without me …
After living some years in the calm Eindhoven and learning about the super security systems in Stratumsedijk, I was never worried about walking alone in the night. One day, I was walking back home around 10 pm after meeting some friends. Hidden behind some parked bikes, in the city centre, there was a semi naked …
I was walking to the grocery store and two men yelled sexual comments at me. It happened in the Harriet Freezerstraat (Amsterdam Zuid-Oost).
‘Je bent niet schuldig hoor, maar je had daar nooit moeten fietsen’ dat was de reactie van de zedenpolitie toen ik aangifte deed van een gewelddadige aanranding. Victimblaming weet ik nu.. hoe vaak en hoe pijnlijk dat soort opmerkingen zijn begrijpen veel mensen niet. Sterker de meeste mensen kennen het niet eens. Ik reed terug …
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A while back, I was biking in the afternoon and made eye contact with a man that was walking nearby. He licked his lips suggestively and kept eye contact. I kept biking to quickly pass him and felt so uncomfortable, I was really thrown off and felt so weird.
I early twenty, and was looking at the timetable at platform 2. Platform 2 is a very wide platform and it wasn’t crowded at all when it happened. While I was looking, I felt something like a finger or part of a hand gliding across my butt. I was surprised that I had any physical …
I was running through Leiderdorp in the evening. I used to take this route and I never expected harassment here. However, I was waiting for the traffic lights and a boy was waiting with his bicycle. When I walked further slowly, he did not pass me. After a few meters he did. A bit later he …
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I had parked my car on the parking lot next to the station to get a sandwich in the afternoon. I got out of my car and walked to the station (which I had to cross in order to get to the city centre). A man was standing in front of the station and he …
At the bike rental place, the guy who rents out the bikes catcalls me every time I come to get a bike. Today he ran after me while I was biking away and grabbed the bike to halt it. He proceeded to talk to me about what I was wearing. I did not feel safe.
Got approached from behind by a strange guy that touched me inappropriately without me wanting to, or me even seeing that he came up to me.
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