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2 Oct, 7 tweets, 3 min read
THREAD By DM, whishes to remain anonymous:

"I have to be anonymous as my parents don't know what happened to me as a child and it would hurt them if they found out. I was first raped when I was 13, by a man at knife point. It was the first time I'd been kissed." 1/ #STFUSaturday
"I was really only interested in studying and sports, not boys. Strangely, what I think affected me more in that instance was that as he dragged me off the road to an industrial estate, I screamed as we went past some houses. Someone came to a window and saw me." 2/ #STFUSaturday
"Looked right at me, then made a decision not to get involved. It's his face that still haunts me, that has made me more distrustful of people.

My next run of sexual assaults happened when I got my first part time job at 17 when at college." 3/ #STFUSaturday
"My boss, a lovely man in his early 60s, would rub against me and get an erection. I'd stand there, frozen. He was well known for it apparently. It was laughed off by everyone who worked there. It's left me with a lifelong aversion to men getting in my space." 4/ #STFUSaturday
"At uni, I had my first boyfriend who, sadly for me was physically & emotionally abusive. He made my life a living hell for 3 years under threat he'd kill my family if I left him. I only summoned the courage to leave him after he'd pushed me in front of a car." 5/ #STFUSaturday
"He was arrested and there were witnesses, but wasn't charged. I don't know why?

I'm 55 now and happily married to a wonderful man and appreciative of wonderful men. It doesn't stop me being frightened of men or unable to enjoy a walk in the countryside alone." 6/ #STFUSaturday
"What is done to us by men stays with us forever.

Thanks again for listening to our stories. I have an awful feeling you'll be inundated with them. Please don't let then ruin your weekend." #STFUSaturday 7/7

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2 Oct
THREAD By DM, wishes to remain anonymous.

TW/CW: rape, abuse, domestic violence

“The first time I can remember seeing a penis was when I went home for lunch from school with a school friend. I had just started high school so I must have been 11 or 12.” 1/ #STFUSaturday
"His older brother and friends were all there watching porn (animal porn) I don’t remember to this day how I ended up alone with one of the friends penis out trying to kiss me and make me touch it while they all laughed outside the door." 2/ #STFUSaturday
"Around 13 I went on a trip to France with school. Three different men exposed themselves to us, our teacher told us to ignore them. Aged around 14 I had my first proper boyfriend, I was besotted with him, we held hands a lot and kissed, that was it." 3/ #STFUSaturday
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2 Oct
THREAD By DM, wishes to remain anonymous.

TW/CW: rape, abuse, domestic violence

“The violence against me started when I was a child. My dad had rage issues and, whilst he hurt my mum and my sis, I was his preferred target.” 1/ #STFUSaturday
“After he died, I had an argument with my mum where she said 'yeah, but you used to wind him up...'.
I. Was. A. Child.
Also a grade A student, and sunny and kind (not that these things are prerequisites for not getting abuse).” 2/ #STFUSaturday
“It was never my behaviour that was the issue, it was always his uncontrolled temper. I used to have dreams he killed me.

Sexual harassment started from, I dunno, 13 years old probably - getting leered at and catcalled by blokes in vans or building sites.” 3/ #STFUSaturday
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2 Oct
By DM, wishes to remain anonymous:

"4 years ago, I worked at a tech company in Manchester. The all-male sales team were aggressively misogynistic. They rated female employees out of 10, openly shared naked pics of their gfs in the office." 1/5 #STFUSaturday
"One of them once told me: 'Look at [reducted name's] leather pants, I'm worried I'm going to get arrested.' A new, very young female employee started. The sales team took her out, everyone got drunk, and she slept with one of the sales guys." 2/5 #STFUSaturday
"On the Monday, the owner and sales manager organised a prank. They told the sales guy that the girl had gone to the police and was pressing rape charges. At my desk close to the board room, I heard the whole prank unfold and the subsequent hysterical laughter." 3/5 #STFUSaturday
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2 Oct
THREAD by DM, wants to remain anonymous:

"Prefer to remain anonymous, I’m in therapy from years of abuse. Brought up in a household of domestic violence, my mum left my dad eventually and we went to grandparents for a while." 1/ #STFUSaturday
"Age 8 Grandad exposed himself, got me to expose myself, escalated to touching (until my Nan clocked it so it stopped). Aged 10 my friends and I were flashed at by an open air swimming pool. We thought it was funny at first but then he started to follow us." 2/ #STFUSaturday
"Aged 12 a man grabbed my (hardly developed) breast as he walked past me, I was so shocked I just froze. He kept walking but when I turned he was looking back and smiling." 3/ #STFUSaturday
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2 Oct
THREAD by DM, wants to be anonymous:

"I would please like to remain anonymous. I haven't ever told anyone this.....first....thank you. Reading all these must take a toll yet you are doing it. I am grateful and already in tears!" 1/ #STFUSaturday
"I got a [car - app name redacted] home because I thought it was safer. The driver asked for my number and said to call him directly instead of using the app. He laughed when I refused over safety. Showed me he had my number anyway." 2/ #STFUSaturday
"Made me feel utterly unsafe, something that continued with texts/calls and the horror that thanks to my drop off, he knew where I lived. Then despite asking [app name redacted] not to allow him to pick me up, he came to get me after work in a different car." 3/ #STFUSaturday
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2 Oct
By DM, wishes to remain anonymous:

"I was first flashed at when jogging in broad daylight in a field when I was 17. The man was standing in the bushes, his trousers down, his genitals on display and grinning. I ran past, went home and cried." 1/4 #STFUSaturday
"People said 'it's just a flasher, tell him next time to put it away'. Then more recently, a year ago, I was flashed at again. This time I was in my 40s. He was a sixth form boy in SCHOOL UNIFORM. He was waiting down an alleyway, sitting on a tree stump." 2/4 #STFUSaturday
"He saw me coming, undid his trousers and got it out. This time, enraged and in my 40s and no longer afraid like the 17 year old I was, I confronted him. I yelled at him. I asked him what he was doing. He put it away and murmured something. I told the police." 3/4 #STFUSaturday
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