Tag: Harassment
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Nigella and Charles. Would you have intervened?
A friend of mine alerted me to the images of Nigella Lawson being abused by her husband Charles Saatchi in a restaurant last week. My friend exclaimed ‘Why didn’t anyone do anything? If this was in a professional environment, two men or two women then there would have been intervention but because its domestic everyone…
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Why women are #Shoutingback…
There’s a huge lack of awareness about just how serious street harassment is. The Everyday Sexism Project, set up by English writer and activist Laura Bates, exists to ‘catalogue instances of sexism experienced by women on a day to day basis’. The hope is that soon everyone using Twitter in the UK will have at least heard…