Thread by @ruxxnaqvi

2 days ago I was verbally abused by a group 3 men in the city centre, asking me in a very aggressive manner why I was taking photos, when I explained I'm a street photographer it wasn't good enough for them, one of them responded in an angry tone telling me that I should...

go somewhere else and do it, I calmly continued explaining my position but all I got was anger from the front, especially from one of them, according to him we photographers and online users are the worst people the world has ever seen.
I guess I got a little bit...

scared, but was more upset than anything else. I wasn't doing anything wrong, I was a woman alone with a camera taking photos of streets, and I don't feel I I deserved to be confronted like that by 3 very much older men. Not long after, I decided to get myself home...

On the walk back I was shouted at by a group of teenage boys trying to get my attention, I ignored and thankfully they passed.
On my last two photowalks I've been accompanied by the wonderful @appertunity and I've felt completely safe because of him. This was not the first...

time something like that has happened to me when I've been on my own, and I know it certainly won't be the last.
I'm sure male photographers have been through such experiences as well but as a woman I feel we are much more likely to be targeted. It is scary because you don't...

know what the other person is capable of. In this case, it was 3 grown men with cans of beer in their hands acting like they're defending the world from people like me. If you've reached the end thanks for reading.
If any of you have experienced something similar please share.

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