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Being 18

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When I was walking back from school and a young boy, probably a street child, grabbed my breast.  Fortunately I was wearing my school blazer and so while I didn't as violated (if I had not been wearing the blazer)  it left me feeling used and powerless even against a person almost my age and size.

Action Shero Manjari Chakravarti

Place: Lucknow, UP

Being 12

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When I was harassed for the first time in yehlanka, I felt no better than a punching bag.two boys on the bike were taking round outside my house. They exactly knew where I lived and how far I travelled. They would often pass sleazy comments at me to draw attention. On one of my trips to the market, when I was walking alone on the road, they came behind me and try to grab my back. Thankfully I turned and jumped in the bushes. They missed the prey. I felt quite victorious but threat and imposing seance of danger still lingered. On my way back from the market, the same men on the very same bike fisted and punched me hard on my hip. It was pretty obvious from the way they hit me that they were angry. They were angry because they missed their target or were they angry because I teased them unintentionally by being able to protect myself from them the first time. After closed retrospection, I came to a dilemma. I had a choice to make. Either to get felt up and sexually harmed or to be violently hit and abused. Should I just surrendered or put up a fight knowing that I will loose.

Action Shero Anonymous

Place: Gujarat

Being 21

My friend and I went out at 8 pm to a street next to her house to get some groceries. While returning, we were just about to turn at a corner. I was pointing my friend to a nearby apartment and talking to her. Just then, a guy on a bike came driving in the opposite direction and grabbed at my chest. He had to actually leave the bike handle to grab me. What pleasure the pervert received from this split second contact is one thing I still fail to understand. I was stunned to silence and inaction at that time. After a few seconds, I shouted at him but he has already left by then. And just so we are clear, this 'guy' is old enough to have been a father of a girl my age.The bastard.

Thinking back, I should have run after him to the traffic signal which was really close by and made a scene. But I was too shocked that someone would do that to a woman.

Action Shero Anonymous
Place : Hyderabad

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