As International Anti-Street Harassment Week comes to a close, here are stories from BuzzFeed employees about the times they felt unsafe in a public space.
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Once I was walking down the street in my neighborhood on a beautiful day and I passed a five-story apartment building. A guy stuck his head out of one of the windows all the way at the top and yelled for me to stop to talk to him. I'm like, WTF, I'm not going to shout up at you to have a conversation that I don't even want to have, so I continue walking. A few steps later I hear a thud behind me and turn to see that he had thrown a book at me from the window. —Tracy Clayton
"Once a guy was staring at me on a train. He had to get past me to get off the train at his stop. As he did so, he whispered, 'sex, follow' at me and rubbed his two forefingers against his thumb, maybe implying that there was cash money in it for me?" —Robyn Wilder
"When I lived in Philly I was walking home one night in the rain and some guy did the typical whistle/say-something-vulgar thing to me. I don't know why, but I just snapped. I turned around and I beat him on the knees with my umbrella, and started chasing him. It was...something." —Julie Gerstein
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