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2 Oct, 6 tweets, 3 min read
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
"We stopped somewhere and it happened. I will not dignify it with descriptive words but a violation. Police did nothing. [App name redacted] sent its regrets and I was left with nothing but pure fear & distrust of the world." 4/ #STFUSaturday
"I spend 90+ minutes walking to work, only on a main road so I am ALWAYS seen. Never get a lift from ANYONE or a taxi, in the snow, rain and haven't been intimate with anyone since." 5/ #STFUSaturday
"I felt ignored and violated. Unprotected and unheard. I have since seen I am also not alone and that is the worst. Thank you for reading that. I am going to go have a bath because I feel dirty even typing that." 6/6 #STFUSaturday

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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
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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2 Oct
THREAD By DM, wants to be anonymous:

"My father severely beat and tortured me (physically and psychologically) and made sexual overtures for the first 19 years of my life. And he got away with it." 1/ #STFUSaturday
"I was 15 when I finally told a therapist who worked in the guidance department of my high school just a fraction of what went on. She said the school staff suspected abuse but couldn't pursue it unless I said something (this was in the US in 1990)." 2/ #STFUSaturday
"The guidance department feared my father would retaliate violently for reporting him, but instead of removing me from my home, they suggested I plan an escape route on bicycle. I asked what I should do when he tried to plow me down with the car. No response." 3/ #STFUSaturday
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