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" Sexual harassment doesn&amp;#039;t start when you&amp;#039;re a grownup. It doesn&amp;#039;t suddenly kick off when you wear a tight skirt.\u00A0 As pretty much every woman will know, it starts young. Distressingly young. Catcalling and inappropriate behaviour are there, waiting, ready to welcome you into the experience of being a woman in the world.\u00A0 And it sucks, obviously. It sucks to have to deal with the fact, at age seven, that there are people in the world who will look at your body and decide it&amp;#039;s theirs to comment on. It&amp;#039;s sad that before we&amp;#039;re even teenagers, we&amp;#039;ll have become used to men staring at our legs, used to silently moving away, picking up speed when we feel someone walking behind us, trying not to attract attention.\u00A0 Today, women around the world have been sharing their earliest experiences of sexual harassment with the hashtag #WhenIWas, started by Everyday\u00A0Sexism. The aim of the tag is to remind everyone just how young all this bullshit starts, and just how long women have been dealing with it.\u00A0      Thousands of our https://t.co/pYch8sXUOn entries come from girls under the age of 16, detailing sexism, harassment, violence &amp;amp;amp; abuse \u2014 EverydaySexism (@EverydaySexism) April 19, 2016    There are accounts of women being attacked and harassed at the age of 7, multiple stories of being sexualised under the age of 16, and experiences of catcalling from the age of 12. The saddest part of all of this? It feels strangely familiar and inevitable. And that needs to change.\u00A0      #WhenIWas 13, the catcalls started. Catcalls from grown men. I was a child. \u2014 Karla (@anxiouslatina) April 19, 2016         #wheniwas 8 a man on the bus told me to hold my tummy in because &amp;#039;boys don&amp;#039;t want to kiss fat little girls&amp;#039; \u2014 Kate Bottley (@revkatebottley) April 19, 2016         #WhenIWas 16 on a school trip I was drugged by a man at a hostel. He attempted to rape me. Police said I was old enough to know better. \u2014 Lydia Hulme (@EllesieBean) April 19, 2016         My first meet with sexual harassment happened #WhenIWas barely 6. A man waving his tool towards me in public. @EverydaySexism \u2014 Mad Woman (@BespectacledInd) April 19, 2016         #wheniwas 12 and a man yelled out of his van window that I was &amp;quot;a miserable cow&amp;quot; for not responding to his whistles and horn honking. \u2014 Kate (@keziaroseinked) April 19, 2016         #whenIwas 12 &amp;amp;amp; in my school uniform a middle aged man grabbed my breasts when he saw I was alone in a shopping centre. @EverydaySexism \u2014 Laujo (@LauJo) April 19, 2016         #whenIwas 13 a HS neighbor boy yelled sexual things at me when I walked my dog and I never wore my favorite boots and dress again \u2014 Kate (@MadLock445) April 19, 2016         @EverydaySexism #WhenIwas 7 I was dragged in to the toilets by a group of boys who tried to remove my uniform. Told a teacher. Was ignored. \u2014 Patrice Em (@undineundersky) April 19, 2016     There are thousands more tweets using the hashtag.\u00A0 Follow Ellen on Twitter.\u00A0  Like this? Come and check us out on Snapchat Discover.\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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