Women are using sarcasm to shut down street harassment
LONDON -- Street harassment is no joke. In fact, recent figures suggest that 65% of all women in the U.S. have experienced it.
But, women all over the world are tweeting their experiences of street harassment using the #NoWomanEver hashtag, with one surprising addition: humour.
Sarcasm and comedy aren't two things you'd normally associate with stories of harassment, but CJ from Atlanta, Georgia, created the hashtag to infuse some sarcasm to highlight the lack of understanding and sensitivity surrounding about the topic.
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"All the shade and sarcasm in the world can't make this shit tolerable. Yuck," wrote CJ on Twitter.
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Women quickly followed CJ's example and began tweeting their experiences using the hashtag.
From stories of being followed...
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To sexual comments...
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To terrifying experiences of indecent exposure...
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Experiences of sexual touching...
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Catcalling...
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And, aggressive behaviour...
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And they say romance is dead (see what we did there?)
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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
