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The country is becoming an unsafe place for women and the situation is only worsening day by day. Every day there are so many women sharing their experiences of sexual harassment faced at work or elsewhere. The #MeToo movement which encouraged women to speak up against the sexual harassment cases got more incidences being talked about. Now as more and more people are gathering courage and speaking up about the issue, a female journalist has shared her horrific experience from the Mumbai floods in the year 2005. She has accused other journalists of sexually harassing her. Post #MeToo Movement, Number of Workplace Sexual Harassment Claims Rise in US.
Sandhya Menon, a writer has shared her experiences of sexual harassment faced at workplace from other journalists. She speaks that how in the year 2005 when Mumbai was going through the worst of the floods, she dreaded a conversation with a fellow journalist, who she was working with. Gurugram: US Citizen Files Sexual Harassment Complaint Against Her Office Senior.
Back in 2005, I was 25, and taking shelter from the flood in Bombay at a colleague's house, @manojanthikad sent me a text, "I want to fuck you." He took my number from a mutual friend and decided to charm me when Bombay was drowning with that approach. https://t.co/andMvyuV5X
— Sandhya Menon (@TheRestlessQuil) October 5, 2018
Because 2005. But the mutual friend knows this happened and it's time I called him out, even though I risk it becoming a he said she said, and I also risk the fact that he might have gotten over his shitty ideas of how to treat women and fixed himself.
— Sandhya Menon (@TheRestlessQuil) October 5, 2018
She happened to share this incident with others when another woman shared how an unconvincing apology stopped her from calling out to her sexual harasser. The entire thread goes out to show how women are now gathering courage after the time even if it is years later to the incident.
(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Oct 05, 2018 09:35 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).
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