Many people feel as if we live in an age of enlightenment but it seems as if we may have a long way to go. When Courtney Greatrex, a 22-year-old woman from London, was walking to work at 7:30 in the morning, she became a victim of sexual harassment. She was on her way to the tube and traffic was slow.
As she was walking along, three men pulled up in a white van and began to catcall her. They didn’t stop at the whistles, they began shouting obscenities and even continued to harass her by following her. They were laughing, ringing bells and making fun of her and she had done nothing wrong. She was in tears and frightened at what they were doing.
After Courtney told them it was harassment, they continued to laugh and got even more aggressive. That is when she took a picture of the van and they were trying to hide their faces. As it turns out, they were driving a company vehicle so she decided to give their boss a call.
“Before 8 a.m. this morning, I got repeatedly goaded by these three men in their van in slow traffic.”
“They followed me down the road, ringing a bike bell and whistling at me to look at them and laughing.”
“So I took a picture of their van, told them to leave me alone, and they hid their faces but not before calling me [names] – for walking to the tube.”
“Don’t get me wrong, sexual harassment is alive and well in London, and this happens most morning. But today I’m not accepting it. Don’t worry, boys, wolf whistling from your company car means your boss is about to find out all about it!”
I spoke to their boss, who dealt with it really well, but the company needs to take ownership of the fact that these men were in a car marked with their details.
He called me back to say that one of the staff members has been sacked and they are properly investigating the other two employees tomorrow.”
Ouch, that is one way to get revenge.
Via: Little Things
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